Anita Niesz

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Anita Niesz (born June 16, 1925 in Ennetbaden ; † October 1, 2013 in Lengnau AG ) was a Swiss photographer who was best known for her portraits of children.

Career

Anita Niesz grew up in Ennetbaden as the daughter of an engineer from Geneva and a Swiss woman who grew up in Brazil with two siblings. She trained as a photographer from 1944 to 1948 at the Zurich School of Applied Arts under Hans Finsler and Alfred Willimann . From 1949 she worked as a free-lance photographer for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung and the cultural magazine Du, among others . In the years 1951 to 1957 she made various trips to the Atlantic coast of France , to the south of France , to Italy and to Ireland . In 1961 she married the architect August Volland. In the same year the son Christian was born. In 1974 he took part in the exhibition Photography in Switzerland from 1840 to today at the Kunsthaus Zurich . In 1989 the exhibition Anita Niesz - Photographs 1949–1974 was shown at the Aargauer Kunsthaus . Your estate is in the Swiss Photo Foundation .

literature

Web links

  • Anita Niesz on the foto.ch website (office for photography history Bern)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anita Volland-Niez lives on in her photos. In: Aargauer Zeitung . October 30, 2013, accessed May 13, 2018.
  2. ↑ Anita Niesz, photographs. Exhibition catalog. Benteli-Verlag, Bern 1989, ISBN 3-7155-0672-9 , p. 151.
  3. ↑ Anneliese Zwez: They challenge our feelings: Hans Danuser and Anita Niesz. In: Aargauer Tagblatt . June 5, 1989, accessed on May 13, 2018.
  4. ↑ Niesz, Anita at the Swiss Photo Foundation.
personal data
SURNAME Niesz, Anita
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Volland-Niesz, Anita (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss photographer
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Ennetbaden
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 2013
Place of death Lengnau AG