Bertha Züricher or Berthe Zuricker (20 March 1869 – 7 October 1949) was a Swiss author, painter and engraver.

Bertha Züricher
Born20 March 1869
Bern, Switzerland
Died7 October 1949(1949-10-07) (aged 80)
Bern, Switzerland
Occupationpainter

Life

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Züricher was born in Bern on 20 March 1869.[1]

 
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.[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

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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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  1. ^ a b c d "Browse In Prints and Printmaking | Benezit Dictionary of Artists". www.oxfordartonline.com. Retrieved 2020-01-09.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Züricher, Bertha (1928). Postkarte, Herrn Wartman, 1. Sekretär des Kunsthaus, Zürich, 68 Postgasse Bern: Sehr geehrter Herr ... (in German).
  4. ^ Daepp, Hans Arnold; Reber, Walter; Züricher, Bertha (1950). Gedächtnisausstellungen - A.H. Daepp, Walter Reber, Bertha Züricher : [Katalog]. [Bern]: [Verlag nicht ermittelbar].
  5. ^ Egli, Kurt Jakob (2004). Bertha Züricher: Leben und Werk der Berner Malerin (in German). Berna-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-85658-003-2.
  6. ^ Kultussen, Die (2012-02-13). "Die Kultussen: Rückkehr einer Ausnahmekünstlerin". Die Kultussen. Retrieved 2020-01-09.