Anny Meisser-Vonzun

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Anny Meisser-Vonzun (born March 31, 1910 in St. Moritz ; † August 6, 1990 in Chur , resident in Chur and Davos ) was a Swiss painter , draftsman and lithographer .

life and work

Anny Meisser-Vonzun was the daughter of the hotel director and teacher Otto and Anna, née Monsch. Her father died in 1918 during the Spanish flu pandemic , her mother in 1924. She stayed behind in St. Moritz with her three sisters. After Anny Meisser-Vonzun had attended art courses with Julius de Praetere at the Zurich School of Applied Arts in 1928 and then with Otto Baumberger at the ETH Zurich , she studied at the general trade school in Basel from 1932 to 1936 . Her teachers were Arnold Fiechter , Fritz Baumann , Georg Albrecht Meyer (1875–1952) and Hermann Meyer (1878–1961).

In 1937 Anny Meisser-Vonzun had her first exhibition at the Chur antiquarian Moham. There she met the painter Leonhard Meisser , whom she married in 1939. She then studied for a year at the Académie Ranson under Roger Bissière .

Anny Meisser-Vonzun did not paint any local landscape pictures, as this was her husband's domain and instead concentrated on still lifes and interiors as well as portraits of children. Only later did she also create landscapes that she had sketched out during her extensive study trips abroad.

Anny Meisser-Vonzun became a member of the Society of Swiss Women Painters, Sculptors and Craftsmen (GSMBK) in 1941 and subsequently participated regularly in group exhibitions in Switzerland; so in the Kunstsalon Wolfsberg , in the Kunsthalle Bern , in the Kunstmuseum Bern , Kunsthaus Glarus and Bündner Kunstmuseum .

After the Second World War , she and her husband stayed in Paris at least once a year. Her study trips took her to Normandy, Brittany, Camargue, Provence, Tuscany as well as Venice, Umbria, Portugal, Spain, Greece and the islands of the Aegean Sea and North Africa. The resulting sketch sheets were converted into pictures in the studio. She and her husband exhibited the works regularly in galleries in Basel, Arbon , Aarau , Schwanden , Geneva and Bozen .

In 1954, the couple moved into their own studio in Chur in the upper “Lürli pool” on Prasserieweg. In 1958, Anny Meisser-Vonzun created a six-square-meter mural Schlitteda for the Swiss Exhibition for Women’s Labor . This depicts the winter sleigh ride of young people in the wintry Engadine and is now federally owned.

In the spring of 1959, she and two other Swiss women took part in the international female painters exhibition “Club International Féminin” in the Palais d'Art moderne, now the Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris .

In the later years Anny Meisser-Vonzun began to take photos and increasingly painted abstracts. She converted her sketches into paintings, graphic lithographs, woodcuts and monotypes .

The “Leonard Meisser and Anny Vonzun Foundation” is active in ecclesiastical, political or secular associations and is based in Chur.

literature

  • Ulrich Christoffel : The painter Anny Vonzun. In: Bündner Jahrbuch: Zeitschrift für Kunst, Kultur und Geschichte Graubünden, Vol. 1, 1959, pp. 49–53 ( digitized version ).
  • Paul Zinsli: The painter Anny Meisser-Vonzun. In: Bündner Jahrbuch: Zeitschrift für Kunst, Kultur und Geschichte Graubünden, Vol. 23, 1981, pp. 14-20 ( digitized version ).
  • Hans Peyer: Encounters with the artist couple Leonhard and Anny Meisser-Vonzun. In: Bündner Jahrbuch: Zeitschrift für Kunst, Kultur und Geschichte Graubünden, Vol. 34, 1992, pp. 29–38 ( digitized version ).
  • Peter Metz: Encounters with Leonhard and Anny Meisser-Vonzun. In: Bündner Jahrbuch: Zeitschrift für Kunst, Kultur und Geschichte Graubünden, Vol. 45, 2003, pp. 33–41 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ulrich Christoffel: Exhibitions, Anny Vonzun. Retrieved August 2, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Meisser-Vonzun, Anny
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter, draftsman and lithographs
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Moritz
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 1990
Place of death Chur