Ruth Grotenrath

She received her Bachelor of Arts from the Milwaukee State Teachers College, studying with Gustave Moeller, Robert von Neumann, and Elsa Ulbricht.

[2] In 1934, she married fellow painter Schomer Lichtner, and the couple began employment with the Works Project Administration.

[3] In the wake of the Second World War, Grotenrath taught painting at the Layton School of Art.

In 1945, she and Lichtner held an important retrospective exhibition of their works at the Wisconsin Historical Museum in Madison.

[5] Grotenrath's early works were influenced by American Regionalism yet, by 1940, she had started experimenting with brighter colors and abstraction.