Bertha Zuricher
{{Short description|Swiss artist (1869–1949)}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Bertha Züricher
| image = Bertha Züricher.jpg
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| birth_date = 20 March 1869
| birth_place = Bern, Switzerland
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1949|10|07|1869|03|20}}
| death_place = Bern, Switzerland
| occupation = painter
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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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.oxfordartonline.com/benezit/browse|title=Browse In Prints and Printmaking {{!}} Benezit Dictionary of Artists|website=www.oxfordartonline.com|language=en|access-date=2020-01-09}}
File:Bertha ZÜRICHER 1935 "summit cross.jpg
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.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B6JTCCBSZuoC&q=bertha+zuricher&pg=PA317|title=Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-garde|last1=Assante|first1=Maryline|last2=Rabinow|first2=Rebecca A.|last3=Druick|first3=Douglas W.|last4=Panzillo|first4=Maryline Assante di|last5=N.Y.)|first5=Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York|last6=Chicago|first6=Art Institute of|last7=d'Orsay|first7=Musée|date=2006|publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art|isbn=978-1-58839-195-7|language=en|page=317}}
In 1928 Zuricher published Postkarte, Herrn Wartman.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f9cOxQEACAAJ&q=Bertha+Zuricher|title=Postkarte, Herrn Wartman, 1. Sekretär des Kunsthaus, Zürich, 68 Postgasse Bern: Sehr geehrter Herr ...|last=Züricher|first=Bertha|date=1928|language=de}}
Death and legacy
Züricher died in 1949 in Bern. She was given a large retrospective exhibition in the year after she died.{{Cite book|url=https://www.swissbib.ch/Record/114457093/Description#tabnav|title=Gedächtnisausstellungen - A.H. Daepp, Walter Reber, Bertha Züricher : [Katalog]|last1=Daepp|first1=Hans Arnold|last2=Reber|first2=Walter|last3=Züricher|first3=Bertha|date=1950|publisher=[Verlag nicht ermittelbar]|location=[Bern]}}
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.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QAiGAAAACAAJ&q=Bertha+Zuricher|title=Bertha Züricher: Leben und Werk der Berner Malerin|last=Egli|first=Kurt Jakob|date=2004|publisher=Berna-Verlag|isbn=978-3-85658-003-2|language=de}}
In 2012 there was a retrospective exhibition of her work at Archivarte Galerie im Breitenrain.{{Cite web|url=https://kultussen.blogspot.com/2012/02/ruckkehr-einer-ausnahmekunstlerin.html|title=Die Kultussen: Rückkehr einer Ausnahmekünstlerin|last=Kultussen|first=Die|date=2012-02-13|website=Die Kultussen|access-date=2020-01-09}}
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Category:19th-century Swiss women writers
Category:19th-century engravers
Category:19th-century Swiss painters
Category:20th-century Swiss women writers
Category:20th-century Swiss engravers
Category:20th-century Swiss painters
Category:20th-century Swiss women artists