Bertha Zuricher Explained
| Bertha Züricher |
| Birth Date: | 20 March 1869 |
| Birth Place: | Bern, Switzerland |
| Death Place: | 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.[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
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]
Notes and References
- Web site: Browse In Prints and Printmaking Benezit Dictionary of Artists. www.oxfordartonline.com. en. 2020-01-09.
- Book: Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-garde. 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. Metropolitan Museum of Art. 978-1-58839-195-7. en. 317.
- Book: Züricher, Bertha. Postkarte, Herrn Wartman, 1. Sekretär des Kunsthaus, Zürich, 68 Postgasse Bern: Sehr geehrter Herr .... 1928. de.
- Book: Gedächtnisausstellungen - A.H. Daepp, Walter Reber, Bertha Züricher : [Katalog]]. Daepp. Hans Arnold. Reber. Walter. Züricher. Bertha. 1950. [Verlag nicht ermittelbar]. [Bern].
- Book: Egli, Kurt Jakob. Bertha Züricher: Leben und Werk der Berner Malerin. 2004. Berna-Verlag. 978-3-85658-003-2. de.
- Web site: Die Kultussen: Rückkehr einer Ausnahmekünstlerin. Kultussen. Die. 2012-02-13. Die Kultussen. 2020-01-09.
