Hermine Lang-Laris

Hermine Lang-Laris was born in Vienna, in what was then the Austrian Empire, in 1842.^[1][2][3] Her father was the palace governor Josef Lang.^[4]

Lang-Laris studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with the artists Remigius Adrianus Haanen and Albert Zimmermann.^[1][3]

As an artist, she was known for her still lifes, landscapes, and depictions of flowers.^[1][3] Her subjects, style, and brushwork show the influence of the Austrian Mood Impressionism [de] movement, as well as a close affinity for the works of Emil Jakob Schindler.^[5]

Beginning in 1863, she displayed her work at various shows of the Austrian Art Association and the Krakow Art Exhibitions.^[1][6] In 1872, she became the first woman to exhibit regularly at the Vienna Künstlerhaus.^[1][3]

Lang-Laris moved in 1898 to Munich, where she resided until 1913.^[1] While there, she joined the Luitpold Group [de], a modernist artistic community founded in 1892, as well as the Munich Artists' Cooperative [de].^[7]

In 1893, one of her paintings was featured at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.^[8]

She died in 1913.^[1][2][3]

• 1863: Mond-Landschaft, Motiv aus Weidling in Lach, Partie bei Neuwaldegg, Aus der Umgebung Wiens, Landschaft bei Sonnenuntergang
• c. 1870: Interieur mit Instrumenten
• 1891: Der Botanische Garten in Wien
• 1897: Stillleben

In the 1920s, the Hermine Lang-Laris Advancement Award was awarded annually to up-and-coming Austrian female artists. This prize was funded by donations from Lang-Laris' sister, Ernestine Figdor, to the Vienna Künstlerhaus. The prize was awarded each year on April 2, the deceased artist's birthday, to a Viennese female painter.^[9]