Agnes Weinrich

American (1873 - 1946)

Born in Burlington, Iowa, Weinrich studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League in New York, as well as studying in Paris, Berlin and Rome, and later settled in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Weinrich was a founding member and director of the New York Society of Women Artists, as well as a member of the Provincetown Art Association. She participated in many gallery exhibitions in New York City, as well as at the Boston Museum of Fine Art, the Boston Art Club, Provincetown Art Association, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art and the Corcoran Gallery Biennial in 1939.

Weinrich became a well-known Modernist, leading a group of young artists in Provincetown in experimenting in Cubism. Following her sister’s marriage in 1922, Weinrich lived in Provincetown with her sister and husband, Karl Knaths. Weinrich was influential in the development of Knaths’ style and introduced him to the New York art scene.