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Petra Frieda Petitpierre, attr., cat's head strongly abstracted depiction of a cat, mixed media (chalks and tempera) on irregularly torn card, inconspicuously signed and dated "Petra 1943" in lead lower right, mounted on card and framed behind glass with passe-partout, drawing approx. 44 x 50 cm, folded dimensions approx. 59.5 x 66.5 cm. Artist information: born Frieda Kessinger, married Petitpierre from 1934, called herself Petra Petitpierre as an artist and often signed her works with "Petra" only, German-Swiss painter, draughtswoman and draughtswoman.Swiss painter, draughtswoman, graphic artist, fresco painter and art theorist (1905 Zurich to 1959 Bern), youth in Zurich, 1921-23 commercial apprenticeship, then drawing and modelling course with sculptor Eduard Bick, 1926/27 nude drawing courses at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, 1929-31 student at the Bauhaus Dessau with Josef Albers and Wassily Kandinsky, later master student of Paul Klee, moved with Klee to the Düsseldorf Academy in 1931, here also a pupil of Heinrich Campendonk, completed her studies here in 1932, 1933-34 6-month study visit to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière with Fernand Léger and André Lhote in Paris, undertook study trips through France, Germany, Italy and Albania, 1933 return to Switzerland, 1934 marriage to the architect Hugo Petitpierre (1877-1967), from 1936 lived in Murten/Canton Fribourg and until approx. 1940 largely not artistically active, from 1940 intensive phase of work, participated in various exhibitions, maintained lifelong friendships with Paul Klee, Max Bill, Curt Valentin, Fritz Levedag and Hans Kayser, restored many of Paul Klee's works after his death and organised his estate, 1945 solo exhibition in Bern, participated in exhibitions in Düsseldorf, Basel, Bern, Zurich, St. Gallen, Hamburg, Schaffhausen, Duisburg, among others. Gallen, Hamburg, Schaffhausen, Duisburg and Neuchâtel, member of the Lyceum Club, the artists' group "Allianz" and member of the "Gesellschaft Schweizer Malerinnen, Bildhauerinnen und Kunstgewerblerinnen", source: Vollmer, Saur "Bio-Bibliographisches Künstlerlexikon", Wikipedia, Bénézit, Huber-Frauenfeld "Künstlerlexikon der Schweiz", Sikart and the artist's homepage.

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Petra Frieda Petitpierre, attr., cat's head strongly abstracted depiction of a cat, mixed media (chalks and tempera) on irregularly torn card, inconspicuously signed and dated "Petra 1943" in lead lower right, mounted on card and framed behind glass with passe-partout, drawing approx. 44 x 50 cm, folded dimensions approx. 59.5 x 66.5 cm. Artist information: born Frieda Kessinger, married Petitpierre from 1934, called herself Petra Petitpierre as an artist and often signed her works with "Petra" only, German-Swiss painter, draughtswoman and draughtswoman.Swiss painter, draughtswoman, graphic artist, fresco painter and art theorist (1905 Zurich to 1959 Bern), youth in Zurich, 1921-23 commercial apprenticeship, then drawing and modelling course with sculptor Eduard Bick, 1926/27 nude drawing courses at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, 1929-31 student at the Bauhaus Dessau with Josef Albers and Wassily Kandinsky, later master student of Paul Klee, moved with Klee to the Düsseldorf Academy in 1931, here also a pupil of Heinrich Campendonk, completed her studies here in 1932, 1933-34 6-month study visit to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière with Fernand Léger and André Lhote in Paris, undertook study trips through France, Germany, Italy and Albania, 1933 return to Switzerland, 1934 marriage to the architect Hugo Petitpierre (1877-1967), from 1936 lived in Murten/Canton Fribourg and until approx. 1940 largely not artistically active, from 1940 intensive phase of work, participated in various exhibitions, maintained lifelong friendships with Paul Klee, Max Bill, Curt Valentin, Fritz Levedag and Hans Kayser, restored many of Paul Klee's works after his death and organised his estate, 1945 solo exhibition in Bern, participated in exhibitions in Düsseldorf, Basel, Bern, Zurich, St. Gallen, Hamburg, Schaffhausen, Duisburg, among others. Gallen, Hamburg, Schaffhausen, Duisburg and Neuchâtel, member of the Lyceum Club, the artists' group "Allianz" and member of the "Gesellschaft Schweizer Malerinnen, Bildhauerinnen und Kunstgewerblerinnen", source: Vollmer, Saur "Bio-Bibliographisches Künstlerlexikon", Wikipedia, Bénézit, Huber-Frauenfeld "Künstlerlexikon der Schweiz", Sikart and the artist's homepage.

Estimate 180 - 270 EUR
Starting price 180 EUR

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