Linda Naeff
{{Short description|Swiss female artist}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Linda Naeff
| image = Linda Naeff.jpg
| alt = Linda Naeff with her husband
| caption = Linda Naeff (right) with her husband
| birth_date = 22 February 1926
| birth_place = Bagnolet
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2014|02|20|1926|02|22}}
| death_place = Carouge
| nationality = Swiss
| occupation = Painter, sculptor
}}
Linda Naeff (February 22, 1926 - February 20, 2014),[https://www.ch-cultura.ch/de/archiv/museum-ausstellung-galerie/linda-naeff- matricule-ii.-uebermuetter-mit-werken-von-maria-rolly-berta-balzli-adelheid-duvanel-u.a Notice ch-cultura.ch].[http://www.film-documentaire.fr/4DACTION/w_fiche_film/46813_1 Notice film-documentaire.fr]. was a Swiss painter and sculptor. Close the Art Brut movement, she started painting in her sixties.{{Cite news |date=2016-05-09 |title=L’œuvre d’une vie bouleversée - Le Temps |language=fr |url=https://www.letemps.ch/culture/arts/loeuvre-dune-vie-bouleversee |access-date=2023-08-24 |issn=1423-3967}} She has been influenced by Jean Dubuffet.[https://www.bilan.ch/opinions/etienne-dumont/art_brut_le_musee_de_carouge_presente_le_monde_de_linda_naeff Notice www.bilan.ch].[https://docplayer.fr/46789986-L-enigme-linda-naeff-du-11-janvier-au-9-fevrier-2914-dossier-didactique.html dossier didactique].
Biography
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.{{Cite web |date=2016-05-15 |title=ART BRUT/Le Musée de Carouge présente le monde de Linda Naeff |url=https://www.bilan.ch/opinions/etienne-dumont/art_brut_le_musee_de_carouge_presente_le_monde_de_linda_naeff |access-date=2023-08-24 |website=Bilan |language=fr}} She later marries and moves to Geneva, where to become a hairdresser.
Naeff begins painting in 1987 at the age of sixty-one.[https://www.museumimlagerhaus.ch/en/ausstellungen/archiv/2020-uebermuetter-linda-naeff/ Notice museumimlagerhaus]. She creates 4,500 works of art, including 500 sculptures and 4,000 paintings[http://www.film-documentaire.fr/ 4DACTION/w_fiche_film/46813_1 Notice].{{Cite web |date=2016-05-02 |title=Linda Naeff a créé 7000 œuvres à partir de 61 ans, à sa mort |url=https://www.tdg.ch/linda-naeff-a-cree-7000-uvres-a-partir-de-61-ans-a-sa-mort-710994282303 |access-date=2023-08-24 |website=Tribune de Genève |language=fr}}
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.{{Cite news |date=2012-09-01 |title=Douna Loup écrit "Les Lignes de ta paume", en suivant le destin d’une étonnante vieille dame - Le Temps |language=fr |url=https://www.letemps.ch/culture/livres/douna-loup-ecrit-lignes-paume-suivant-destin-dune-etonnante-vieille-dame |access-date=2023-08-24 |issn=1423-3967}} A 2014 documentary, Les couleurs habillent la souffrance ("Colors will hide suffering") is also released shortly after her death.{{Cite web |title=Linda Naeff – Les couleurs habillent la souffrance |url=https://www.swissfilms.ch/fr/movie/linda-naeff-les-couleurs-habillent-la-souffrance/AC95EA059C384B31B9ED152B0A95BB05 |access-date=2023-08-24 |website=swissfilms |language=fr}}
Bibliography
- 2012: Douna Loup, The lines of your palm, Paris, Mercure de France, 2012 {{ISBN|978-2-7152-3282-2}}{{Cite web |title = Douna Loup writes "The Lines of your palm", following the destiny of an astonishing old lady|url = https://www.letemps.ch/culture/2012/09/01/douna-wolf-writing-lines-paume-following-destiny-an-astonishing-old-lady|website=letemps.ch |access-date=2016-02-02}}
Sculptures
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Category:21st-century Swiss painters
Category:20th-century Swiss painters
Category:20th-century Swiss sculptors
Category:21st-century Swiss sculptors
Category:Women outsider artists
Category:20th-century Swiss women painters
Category:21st-century Swiss women painters