Light-filled landscapes, atmospheric studies of nature, and a bold step into modernity: the mpk Kaiserslautern is dedicating a comprehensive exhibition to Austrian painter Tina Blau, putting the spotlight on an important artist whose work has long been unjustly overshadowed by art history.
She is one of Austria's most important landscape painters. She masterfully captures the light as it breaks through layers of clouds or casts shadows under trees. And yet Tina Blau is virtually unknown. The mpk is presenting her work comprehensively in an exhibition. Tina Blau painted "en plein air," directly in front of her subject, and thus developed her visual language, with which she ventured into modernism. Between 1872 and 1916, she created extraordinary works during her numerous study trips to Italy, France, and the Netherlands, among other places. During her lifetime, Tina Blau participated in important exhibitions, found buyers for her art like few other female painters, and taught at newly founded art schools for girls and young women in Munich and Vienna.
In this context, the exhibition aims to highlight and profile Tina Blau's role as an assertive woman and her position as a great landscape painter in a male-dominated art world.
January 31 to May 25, 2026
