Anny Boxler

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Anny Boxler (born April 27, 1914 in Grabs ; † August 22, 2001 in Rebstein ) was a Swiss representative of naive painting .

life and work

Anna Boxler, called Anny, came from a poor family. The father was a sticker and often unemployed; the mother worked as a homeworker . Anny Boxler started working in a paper mill at the age of 16 . Later she was employed in various textile factories . She often changed jobs and thus also where she lived, but mostly lived in the St. Gallen Rhine Valley.

Anny Boxler started painting and drawing at an early age. After a breakdown caused by the death of her parents, she intensified this activity. She began to exhibit her mostly signed works, was able to sell them regularly and also took orders. The picture sales even enabled her to buy a simple, old house. In addition to landscapes , genres , fantastic scenes and dream images, she also painted portraits and, with increasing age, increasingly biblical scenes.

Anny Boxler was also active musically: she sang, played the violin, guitar and piano and was a member of the Widnau Orchestra Association .

The Museum in the Warehouse in St. Gallen thanks to the 2014 acquired collection of Mina and Joseph John has a large inventory of works by Anny Boxler's.

Exhibitions

  • 1984: Realists of Longing, Olten , Stadthaus (group exhibition)
  • 1988: St. Gallen, government building (group exhibition)
  • 2000: My friends, the unskilled masters, Art Museum of the Canton of Thurgau , Ittingen Charterhouse (group exhibition)
  • 2006–2007: Snow, Snow, Snow, Herrliberg , Kunsthäuschen (group exhibition)
  • Bible in Pictures, Maria der Engel Monastery, Appenzell (group exhibition)
  • 2013: A year full of art, Museum im Lagerhaus, St. Gallen (group exhibition)
  • 2015: The Mina and Josef John Collection, Museum im Lagerhaus, St. Gallen (group exhibition)

Testimonials

  • My time was well filled. The life of Anna Boxler. In: Du , Vol. 43, 1983, pp. 34-36, 94-95.

literature

  • Anny Boxler. Introduction by Josef John. J. John, Wittenbach 1986.
  • Meinrad Gschwend: Painting to forget suffering. The naive artist Anny Boxler removes the boundaries between reality and fantasy. In: Our Rhine Valley. Pp. 311-313.

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personal data
SURNAME Boxler, Anny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boxler, Anna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Grabs
DATE OF DEATH August 22, 2001
Place of death Rebstein