| Bertha Züricher | |
|---|---|
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| Born | 20 March 1869 Bern, Switzerland |
| Died | 7 October 1949(1949-10-07) (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
Züricher was born in Bern on 20 March 1869.
She was known for her paintings and engravings of genre scenes, landscapes and figures, but she was also a writer.
Zuricher's paintings were exhibited at the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In November 1904 Ambroise Vollard chose her paintings of flowers and fruits to be exhibited.
In 1928 Zuricher published Postkarte, Herrn Wartman.
Death and legacy
Züricher died in 1949 in Bern. She was given a large retrospective exhibition in the year after she died.
Paintings in Bern collections are Hunter on the Look-out and In the Cradle. In 2004, Kurt Jakob Egli wrote Bertha Züricher: Leben und Werk der Berner Malerin.
In 2012 there was a retrospective exhibition of her work at Archivarte Galerie im Breitenrain.
References
- ^ "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]. : .
- 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.
- 1869 births
- 1949 deaths
- Writers from Bern
- 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 Swiss women painters
- 19th-century women painters