Christiane Pflug
| Christiane Pflug (née Schütt) | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Sybille Christiane Schütt 20 June 1936 Berlin, Germany |
| Died | 4 April 1972 (aged 35) Toronto, Canada |
| Known for | Painting and Drawing |
| Style | Magic Realism |
Christiane Pflug (June 20, 1936 – April 1972) was a German-born Canadian painter and draughtswoman. During her short lifetime Pflug established a successful career in Canada. She held a teaching position at the Ontario Art College (now OCAD) in Toronto, as one of four women to teach there during the 1960s as well as considerable attention from galleries, collectors and critics with retrospective at the Winnipeg Art Gallery (1966), Hart House (1969) and the Sarnia Art Gallery (1971). In 1967 and 1968 she received support from Canada Art Council. Today her paintings hang in National Gallery of Canada (NGC) and the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO). Pflug was praised for her rendering of Magic Realism in an excerpt from the Toronto Star newspaper (11 June 1969) that remarked, “[t]ime is distorted in her paintings. They’re worked on six hours a day for about nine months, and so the season’s change- but the artist simply incorporates this change into her paintings. The foliage will be [blowing] and dying in different parts of the same painting; or the view outside will be winter, while the reflection on the glass door will be summer” Furthermore, Pflug's life and career have influenced several biographies, including Ann Davis', Somewhere Waiting: The life and art of Christiane Pflug(1990) and Christine Colney's, Daughter in Exile: The Painting Space of Christiane Pflug (1998).
Born in Berlin in 1936, Pflug relocated to Paris in 1953 to study fashion design. While in Paris, she met her future husband, Michael Pflug, who became an important influence on her career as an artist. Christiane and Michael married in 1956 and soon after had two daughters, Esther and Ursula. The Pflug's moved to Tunis, Africa for a brief period while Michael completed a medical internship. After a brief stay in Tunis, Christiane and her daughters moved to Toronto, Canada to join her mother who was already living there. Michael joined them in 1960 and began his medical practice in Toronto. It was in Toronto that Christiane painted her most recognizable “series, including; city landscapes from her window, a series of interiors with dolls, and larger portraits of her daughter and her art dealer, Avrom Isaacs of Isaacs Gallery”.
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