Blanche Berthoud
Blanche Berthoud (also Blanche Pernod-Berthoud ; born February 2, 1864 in Interlaken , † May 21, 1938 in Marin NE ) was a Swiss portrait and landscape painter .
Her father, the painter Auguste-Henri Berthoud , gave her her first painting lessons . She then studied at the Académie Julian in Paris with Benjamin Constant and Jules-Joseph Lefebvre .
She initially devoted herself to portraiture. From 1888 she exhibited her works in the Salon des Champs-Élysées. In 1896 she married Pernod and moved with him to Vaumarcus in the canton of Neuchâtel . Since then she has been engaged in alpine landscape painting and also with flower still life.
Her main work is Das Breithorn , exhibited and awarded at the Paris World Exhibition in 1900 . She was a member of the Société romande des femmes peintres (female painter society of French-speaking Switzerland ).
literature
- Carl Brun (editor): Swiss Artist Lexicon . Volume 1, Huber & Co., Frauenfeld 1908, p. 116 ( digitized version ).
- Hans Vollmer: Berthoud, Blanche . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 3 : Bassano – Bickham . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1909, p. 495 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
Web links
- Berthoud, Blanche. Biographical data and works in the Netherlands Institute for Art History (Dutch)
- Berthoud, Blanche. In: Sikart
- Wandering Silent Vertexes and Frozen Peaks
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Berthoud, Blanche |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pernod-Berthoud, Blanche |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss portrait and landscape painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 2, 1864 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Interlaken |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 21, 1938 |
| Place of death | Marin NE |