Christine Gallati

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Christine Gallati with Christian Oehler around 1970

Christina Gallati-Dinner (born April 2, 1888 in Glarus ; † March 16, 1985 in Ennenda ) was a Swiss painter, author and life artist.

Life

Christine Gallati was born as the fifth child of councilor Friedrich August Dinner and Christina Trümpy . She was the granddaughter of manufacturer Jakob Trümpy , one of the pioneers of the Glarus textile industry. At the age of 18 she married Rudolf Gallati , lawyer and later mayor of the Canton of Glarus, and had with him the children Dora, Rudolf and Eva.

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Christine Gallati began to paint as an autodidact at the age of 43 . She had three short stays in Paris; numerous trips took her to France, Italy, Holland, Spain, Tunisia, Morocco and Greece. She was a member of the Zurich Section of Swiss Painters and Sculptors . She often traveled abroad with Christian Oehler , a painter friend who had moved to the Glarus region to relax after years of being a prisoner of war in the Soviet Union.

In addition to many paintings, she also wrote two books with short stories from her environment, spiced with ridicule and irony, which were reissued in 2011.

She had exhibitions in Glarus, Zurich, Chur, Schaffhausen, Winterthur, Geneva, Braunschweig and New York. Gallati drew many chalk portraits, in later years switched from watercolor to oil and litho hand printing, zinc etching and mainly colored woodcuts. She cultivated a "natural expressionism".

literature

  • Kunstverein Glarus, exhibition directory 1968.
  • Christine Gallati, Small Festschrift for the 80th birthday. Commission publishing house Baeschlin, Glarus 1968.
  • Experienced, imagined, painted. Commission Verlag Baeschlin, 1973, DNB 740515500 .
    • Experienced, imagined, painted & in the shadow of Glärnisch. New edition. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2011, ISBN 978-3-8423-7111-8 .
  • In the shadow of Glärnisch. Verlag Baeschlin, 1978, DNB 942260260 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Veronika Feller-Vest: Trümpy, Jakob. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  2. ↑ Hans Laupper: Gallati, Rudolf. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  3. ↑ Othmar Huber in a festschrift for his 80th birthday.
  4. ^ Hans Fontana in Glarner Nachrichten, December 8, 1973.
personal data
SURNAME Gallati, Christine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gallati dinner, Christina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter, author and life artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Glarus
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 1985
Place of death Ennenda