Bertha Zuricher
Bertha Züricher | |
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| Born | 20 March 1869 Bern, Switzerland |
| Died | 7 October 1949 (aged 80) Bern, Switzerland |
| Occupation | painter |
Bertha Züricher or Berthe Zuricker (20 March 1869 – 7 October 1949) was a Swiss author, painter and engraver.
Life
[edit]Züricher was born in Bern on 20 March 1869.[1]
She was known for her paintings and engravings of genre scenes, landscapes and figures, but she was also a writer.[1]
Zuricher's paintings were exhibited at the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris.[1] In November 1904 Ambroise Vollard chose her paintings of flowers and fruits to be exhibited.[2]
In 1928 Zuricher published Postkarte, Herrn Wartman.[3]
Death and legacy
[edit]Züricher died in 1949 in Bern. She was given a large retrospective exhibition in the year after she died.[4]
Paintings in Bern collections are Hunter on the Look-out and In the Cradle.[1] In 2004, Kurt Jakob Egli wrote Bertha Züricher: Leben und Werk der Berner Malerin.[5]
In 2012 there was a retrospective exhibition of her work at Archivarte Galerie im Breitenrain.[6]
References
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- ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Browse In Prints and Printmaking | Benezit Dictionary of Artists". www.oxfordartonline.com. Retrieved 2020-01-09.
- ^ Assante, Maryline; Rabinow, Rebecca A.; Druick, Douglas W.; Panzillo, Maryline Assante di; N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York; Chicago, Art Institute of; d'Orsay, Musée (2006). Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-garde. Metropolitan Museum of Art. p. 317. ISBN 978-1-58839-195-7.
- ^ Züricher, Bertha (1928). Postkarte, Herrn Wartman, 1. Sekretär des Kunsthaus, Zürich, 68 Postgasse Bern: Sehr geehrter Herr ... (in German).
- ^ Daepp, Hans Arnold; Reber, Walter; Züricher, Bertha (1950). Gedächtnisausstellungen - A.H. Daepp, Walter Reber, Bertha Züricher : [Katalog]. [Bern]: [Verlag nicht ermittelbar].
- ^ Egli, Kurt Jakob (2004). Bertha Züricher: Leben und Werk der Berner Malerin (in German). Berna-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-85658-003-2.
- ^ Kultussen, Die (2012-02-13). "Die Kultussen: Rückkehr einer Ausnahmekünstlerin". Die Kultussen. Retrieved 2020-01-09.
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- 1869 births
- 1949 deaths
- Writers from Bern
- Swiss women painters
- Swiss engravers
- Women engravers
- 19th-century Swiss women writers
- 19th-century engravers
- 19th-century Swiss painters
- 19th-century Swiss women artists
- 20th-century Swiss women writers
- 20th-century engravers
- 20th-century Swiss painters
- 20th-century Swiss women artists
- Artists from Bern
- 20th-century women painters
- 19th-century women painters