Doris Gäumann-Wild

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Doris Gäumann-Wild , maiden name Doris Nanette Wild (born February 19, 1900 in Bern ; died September 9, 1993 in Zurich ) was a Swiss art historian .

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Doris Nanette Wild was the daughter of Max Otto Wild (1863–1937), a manager of the Swiss Federal Railways . She was born in Bern as the youngest of three children and spent her childhood in Bern, Basel and, from 1909, in Zurich. She first attended secondary school and then the secondary school for daughters, which she graduated with the Matura . She began studying architecture at the University of Vienna , but switched to art history after the first semester. In 1924 she completed her studies with a doctorate under Josef Strzygowski and worked as an assistant at the Kunsthaus Zürich until 1928 . From 1928 she was also employed at the adult education center and temporarily at the secondary school for girls. For Volume 19, 1926, she wrote three articles for the General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . She wrote articles and articles for various daily newspapers and magazines. At the end of the 1920s, she met the botanist Ernst Gäumann , professor of special botany at ETH Zurich, in the “Odeon” coffee house , whom she married in November 1931. In 1937, Niklaus Gäumann, the couple's only son, was born. At the end of 1938 the family moved to Enge into the property of their father Max Otto Wild at Parkring 39.

Gäumann-Wild was a member of the Lyceum Club and president of the literary section. During the war she was a member of the executive committee of the civilian women's welfare service . She enriched the urban art life and in 1950 published a book on "Modern Painting". She also campaigned for the preservation of Villa Tobler .

Shortly after his retirement, her husband died on December 5, 1963. After his death, she wrote a monograph on the French painter Nicolas Poussin , which was not printed and published until 1980. She spent the last years of her life in the Schmiedhof nursing home in Zurich.

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  1. ↑ Matriculation 28732 - Wild (⚭ Gäumann) Miss Doris. matrikel.uzh.ch, accessed on May 22, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Doctoral files from the University of Vienna .
  3. ↑ Ernst Gäumann (1893–1963). library.ethz.ch.
  4. ↑ Gäumann-Wild Doris (1900–1993) Ar 1011. findmittel.ch, accessed on May 22, 2019 .
  5. ↑ See the reviews by Oskar Bätschmann in the Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte . 45, 1982, pp. 82-86;
    Richard Verdi: The Burlington Magazine . 124, 1982, pp. 247-249;
    Ewald M. Vetter : Bruckmann's Pantheon. 39, 1981, pp. 286-290.
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SURNAME Gäumann-Wild, Doris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wild, Doris Nanette (maiden name); Gäumann, Doris
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss art historian
DATE OF BIRTH 19th February 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1993
Place of death Zurich