Babeli Giezendanner

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Anna Barbara Aemisegger-Giezendanner (born May 29, 1831 in Bendel, Kappel ; † October 18, 1905 in Hemberg SG ) was a Swiss painter and representative of Appenzell and Toggenburg peasant painting . She was popularly known as "s'Giezedanner's Babeli" and is therefore mainly known with her painting under the name of Babeli Giezendanner.

Life

Anna Barbara Aemisegger-Giezendanner was born on May 29, 1831 in Bendel, in the St. Gallischen Kappel ( Toggenburg ) as the third of nine children of the teacher and farmer Joseph Giezendanner and Anna, née Brunner from Wattwil. In 1861 she married the master shoemaker Ulrich Aemisegger in Kappel. The family changed their place of residence four times, and in 1873 her husband died in an accident. As a widow with three children, from then on she earned a family livelihood with hand weaving as well as drawing and painting. In 1876 she sold her property in Ebnat, leaving her 13-year-old son Johannes behind. She went on a journey with her two sons Ulrich and Jakob, which for 25 years led to many households in today's Ebnat-Kappel community . In autumn 1901 she moved to her brother Abraham Giezendanner-Künzler, who ran the Toggenburg economy in Rheineck . After three years she moved to the Hemberger poor house Im Bächli and lived there until her death at the age of 74.

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Babeli Giezendanner: Alpine tour and dairy

Babeli Giezendanner learned drawing from her father, which meant that she had a good knowledge of perspective drawing, which characterizes her work. She also worked temporarily for the lithographer Johan Georg Schmied in Lichtensteig . Stylistic relationships to the work of the Swiss peasant painter Johannes Müller from Stein (AR) can be proven, he may have been one of their models.

The artist's work is varied and extensive, the inventory includes around 100 works. They include the representation of houses and villages, alpine elevations and cattle shows . She created numerous paintings on milking pails as well as souvenir sheets for birth, baptism, wedding and death. For commemorative albums, she painted pictures and composed sayings to order . The painting of umbrellas and clock faces has been passed down in the vernacular, but is not verifiable.

Today, many of her paintings and drawings are exhibited in the Toggenburg Museum in Lichtensteig and in the Ackerhus Museum in Ebnat-Kappel .

Works (selection)

  • Mountain stripes, 1892
  • Inside of a stable, undated
  • Move to the cattle show in Hemberg, undated
  • Alpfahrt, undated
  • Cattle show in Hemberg, undated
  • Alpine tour and dairy, undated

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personal data
SURNAME Giezendanner, Babeli
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aemisegger-Giezendanner, Anna Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH Chapel
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 1905
Place of death Hemberg SG