Gertrud Staats (1859–1938) was a German painter and founder of Vereinigung Schlesischer Kűnstlerinnen.

[2] She was acquainted artists from the Neu-Dachau (New Dachau) including Adolf Hölzel and Ludwig Dill.

Staats incorporated the styles of Romantic realism, Impressionism, Art Nouveau and Expressionism.

[1] Staats exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts and The Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.

[2] In 1902 Staats founded the Vereinigung Schlesischer Kűnstlerinnen, the Association of Silesian Artists.