Bertha Züricher
Bertha Züricher or Berthe Zuricker (20 March 1869 – 7 October 1949) was a Swiss author, painter and engraver.
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- Name
- Bertha Züricher
- Born
- 20 March 1869
- Birthplace
- Bern, Switzerland
- Died
- 7 October 1949
- Occupation
- painter
- Nationality
- Switzerland
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Bertha Züricher or Berthe Zuricker (20 March 1869 – 7 October 1949) was a Swiss author, painter and engraver.
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• Name — Bertha Züricher • Born — 20 March 1869 • Birthplace — Bern, Switzerland • Died — 7 October 1949 • Place of death — Bern, Switzerland • Occupation — painter
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Züricher was born in Bern on 20 March 1869. • Illustration — Her 1935 painting "summit cross" She was known for her paintings and engravings of genre scenes, landscapes and figures, but she was also a writer. Züricher'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 Züricher published Postkarte, Herrn Wartman.
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1869
Bertha Züricher was born on 20 March 1869.
1949
Bertha Züricher died on 7 October 1949.
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.
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- 1.Browse In Prints and Printmaking Benezit Dictionary of Artists. www.oxfordartonline.com.
- 2.Assante, Maryline. Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-garde. Metropolitan Museum of Art. 317. 2006. 978-1-58839-195-7.
- 3.Züricher, Bertha. Postkarte, Herrn Wartman, 1. Sekretär des Kunsthaus, Zürich, 68 Postgasse Bern: Sehr geehrter Herr . 1928.
- 4.Daepp, Hans Arnold. Gedächtnisausstellungen - A.H. Daepp, Walter Reber, Bertha Züricher : [Katalog]. [Verlag nicht ermittelbar]. 1950.
- 5.Egli, Kurt Jakob. Bertha Züricher: Leben und Werk der Berner Malerin. Berna-Verlag. 2004. 978-3-85658-003-2.
- 6.Kultussen, Die. Die Kultussen: Rückkehr einer Ausnahmekünstlerin. Die Kultussen. 2012-02-13.
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