Dora Hitz (30 March 1856, Altdorf bei Nürnberg - 20 November 1924, Berlin) was a Court Painter to the Romanian Royal Family, a member of the November Group and co-founder of the Berlin Secession.
Dora Hitz mainly painted figures, especially portraits of women, girls and mothers, sometimes in the style of symbolism.
Since her stay in France she has painted oil paintings, gouaches and watercolors in the Impressionist style.
When she was six years old, her family moved to Ansbach and at thirteen she was sent to Munich to study at the "Damenmalschule der Frau Staatsrat Weber", an art school for young women, where she studied with Wilhelm von Lindenschmit the Younger.
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