Marion Wagschal
{{short description|Canadian painter (born 1943)}}
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Marion Wagschal {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|RCA|size=100%}} (born 1943) is a feminist Canadian painter known for figurative work which sometimes refers to the Holocaust and to her own personal history.A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, volumes 1-8 by Colin S. MacDonald, and volume 9 (online only), by Anne Newlands and Judith Parker National Gallery of Canada / Musée des beaux-arts du Canada{{cite web |title=Marion Wagschal on her figurative art |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZxKufwiRLc |website=www.youtube.com |publisher=You Tube |access-date=2021-07-09}}
Career
She was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago in 1943; her German parents emigrated there from Cologne, Germany in 1939.{{cite web |title=Marion Wagschal, 2020 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ACxn2e5R74 |website=www.youtube.com |publisher=You Tube |access-date=2021-07-09}} In 1951, Wagschal immigrated to Canada with her family and settled in Montreal. In 1962, she received a Teaching Diploma from MacDonald College, McGill University, and in 1975, a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Sir George Williams University (later Concordia University), Montreal.{{cite web |title=Marion Wagschal |url=http://art-history.concordia.ca/eea/artists/wagschal.html |website=art-history.concordia.ca |publisher=Concordia |access-date=2021-07-09}} She taught painting and drawing at Concordia University for 37 years, and developed an innovative seminar/workshop entitled Women and Painting.{{cite web |title=Marion Wagschal |url=https://WWW.MUSEEJOLIETTE.ORG/EN/EXPOSITIONS/MARION-WAGSCHAL/ |website=WWW.MUSEEJOLIETTE.ORG/EN/EXPOSITIONS/MARION-WAGSCHAL |publisher=Musée d'art de Joliette |access-date=2021-07-09}}
Her images are said to "bleed nostalgia and emotion" and concern the ravages of time on human flesh.{{cite web |title=A Closer Look at the Confessional Works of Marion Wagschal |url=https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/8281/a-closer-look-at-the-confessional-works-of-marion-wagschal |website=www.anothermag.com |publisher=AnOther magazine |access-date=2021-07-09}} A travelling retrospective titled Marion Wagschal: Portraits, Memories Fables was organized by Sarah Fillmore for the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia in 2014 and was shown at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in 2015.{{Cite news |last1=Everett-Green, Globe and Mail, 2015|first1=Robert| url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/art-and-architecture/marion-wagschal-retrospective-shows-paintings-saturated-with-time/article24697154/ |title = Marion Wagschal retrospective shows paintings saturated with time}}{{Cite web | url=https://www.lapresse.ca/arts/arts-visuels/201504/13/01-4860568-retrospective-marion-wagschal-allegories-de-la-vulnerabilite.php |title = Rétrospective Marion Wagschal: Allégories de la vulnérabilité|date = 13 April 2015}} In 2017, the Musée d'art de Joliette held an exhibition of her work. Among the public galleries which have her paintings are the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec,{{Cite web | url=https://collections.mnbaq.org/fr/artiste/600003709|title= Collection:Marion Wagschal }} the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts,{{Cite web | url=https://www.mbam.qc.ca/en/works/56285/ |title = MMFA Collection: Marion Wagschal, Artists and Children}} the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Confederation Centre of the Arts (Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island), the Robert McLaughlin Gallery (Oshawa, Ontario) and Plattsburgh State Art Museum (Plattsburgh, New York).
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Category:20th-century Canadian women artists
Category:21st-century Canadian women artists
Category:Painters from Montreal
Category:Canadian art educators
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Category:Concordia University alumni
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