Linda Naeff
Linda Naeff (February 22, 1926 - February 20, 2014), was a Swiss painter and sculptor. Close to the Art Brut movement, she started painting in her sixties. She has been influenced by Jean Dubuffet.
Linda Naeff
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- Name
- Linda Naeff
- Born
- 22 February 1926
- Birthplace
- Bagnolet
- Died
- 20 February 2014
- Place of death
- Carouge
- Occupation
- Painter, sculptor
- Full name
- Nelly Odette Marguerite Boéchat.
- Nationality
- Switzerland.
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Linda Naeff (February 22, 1926 - February 20, 2014), was a Swiss painter and sculptor. Close to the Art Brut movement, she started painting in her sixties. She has been influenced by Jean Dubuffet.
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• Name — Linda Naeff • Born — 22 February 1926 • Birthplace — Bagnolet • Died — 20 February 2014 • Place of death — Carouge • Occupation — Painter, sculptor
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Born in France from Swiss parents, her family (including her three sisters) move back to their native Jura at the onset of the war. Her father is an alcoholic, her mother suicidal, and the teenager is sexually abused. She later marries and moves to Geneva, where she becomes a hairdresser. Naeff begins painting in 1987 at the age of sixty-one. She creates 4,500 works of art, including 500 sculptures and 4,000 paintings In 2012, the writer Douna Loup published The lines of your palm, a novel in which she tells the story of the then eighty-five years old artist, based on interviews they had together. A 2014 documentary, Les couleurs habillent la souffrance ("Colors will hide suffering") is also released shortly after her death.
Linda Naeff et son époux Jo.
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- 1.Naeff, Linda. In: Collection de l’Art Brut. Abgerufen am 12. September 2024.
- 2.Linda Naeff, Matricule II. In: Open art museum. Abgerufen am 13. September 2024.
- 3.Communiqué de presse: Linda Naeff. Les couleurs habillent la souffrance. In: Ville de Carouge vom 29. April 2016. Abgerufen am 13. September 2024.
- 4.Traueranzeige Joseph Naeff. In: Tribune de Genève. 21. Oktober 2014, abgerufen am 13. September 2024.
- 5.Stadt Genf: Les couleurs habillent la souffrance. In Exhibitions July – December 2016. Website der Stadt Genf, S. 18.
- 6.Kate Averis: Portrait of the Artist as an Old Woman. In: Kate Averis, Eglė Kačkutė, Catherine Mao (Hrsg.): Transgression(s) in Twenty-First-Century Women’s Writing in French. Brill, Leiden 2020, ISBN 978-90-04-43569-8, S. 185–195.
- 7.Sikart – Lexikon zur Kunst in der Schweiz: Naeff, Linda.
- 8.Teresa Maranzano: Linda Naeff. In: Ferme de la Chapelle. Abgerufen am 13. September 2024.
- 9.Christina Genova: «Es genügt nicht und nie, einfach ein Kind zu gebären»: Das St. Galler Museum im Lagerhaus beleuchtet schwierige Mutterbeziehungen. In: St. Galler Tagblatt. 1. September 2020, abgerufen am 13. September 2024.
- 10.Komm Glüückck. In: open art museum. Abgerufen am 27. Juni 2026
- 11.Isabelle Zürcher zur Ausstellung «Komm Glüückck». Interview mit der Ausstellungs- und Sammlungskuratorin Isabelle Zürcher vom 4. Mai 2026. In: YouTube-Kanal des open art museums (6:38 Minuten). Abgerufen am 27. Juni 2026
- 12.Pressemitteilung: Zwei Frauen, zwei Lebens- und Schicksalsgeschichten im Museum im Lagerhaus. In: presseportal.ch. 25. Februar 2020, abgerufen am 13. September 2024.
- 13.Naeff, Linda. In: outsider-art-brut.ch. Abgerufen am 13. September 2024.
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