Anna Plate
Anna Plate (26 August 1871 - 23 July 1941) was a German painter. She was a prolific creator of still lifes, watercolor flower paintings, street scenes and portraits. Biography Anna Plate was born in Bremen. Her father was a judge. Her artistic training began during the 1890s. She studied in Bremen with Kunz Meyer und Gottfried Hofer. There followed a couple of years in Munich where she was taught by Ludwig Schmid-Reutte. In 1897 she moved on again, this time to Paris where she enrolled at the independent academy run by the sculptor Filippo Colarossi. The focus of her study in Paris involved the systematic copying of works by three leading masters of impressionism, Courbet, Manet and Renoir. Critics of the period identified clear marks of their influence in Plate's subsequent works. During the years that followed she would undertake further study trips to France. In 1919 Plate became a member of the "Bremer Malerinnen Verein" ("Bremen women artists' association"). (The "Künstlerverein" - "Artists Association" - set up in Bremen in 1856 would remain a "men only" association till 1928.) After the "Bremer Malerinnen Verein" was dissolved she became a member of the pan-German "Gemeinschaft Deutscher und Oesterreichischer Künstlerinnenvereine aller