Josephine Troller

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Josephine Troller (born June 21, 1908 in Lucerne ; † August 19, 2004 ) was a Swiss artist . After training as a milliner , she developed a work as an autodidact with a strongly symbolistic vocabulary of forms, which is only seriously received in the context of art late in her life, but is still sustainable today .

Life

Josephine Troller was born as Josephine Frieda Margerithe Zwimpfer, daughter of Franziska and Leonz Zwimpfer. She grew up as the 3rd of 5 children. From 1924 to 1926 she did an apprenticeship as a milliner, from 1946 she owned a hat atelier in Lucerne. In the same year she married the singer Otto Troller, in 1947 her son Urs was born. From 1945 Josephine Troller developed his first drawings and paintings. As an autodidact, she was encouraged by the artist Max von Moos in 1956 to apply for the juried Christmas exhibition of central Swiss artists. From then on she exhibited regularly and received various awards.

The artist's living and working space remained limited until her death, it seems that all of her travels, outbreaks and departures were restricted to the imagination and the loving shapes of her art. Long valued as a naive Sunday painting by an artistic amateur, Troller's work has been reevaluated in the context of mentality and inwardness since the 1970s and received for the first time as serious art. In her iconic, front-facing portraits with floral, ornamental borders, Troller often showed personalities who were frequenting and exhibiting around the museum director Jean-Christophe Ammann in Lucerne, including Paul Thek, Giuseppe Penone, Jochen Gerzu. a.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1962: Max von Moos and Josephine Troller, Schwyz, Maihof Gallery
  • 1966: Josephine Troller - pictures, drawings, Lucerne
  • 1970: Irma Ineichen, Josephine Troller, Lucerne (with catalog)
  • 1971: Josephine Troller, Lucerne
  • 1975: Josephine Troller, Galerie am Mühleplatz, Lucerne
  • 1976: Le bonheur suisse - Emilienne Farny and Josephine Troller, producer gallery, Zurich
  • 1979: Josephine Troller, Kunstmuseum Luzern , Luzern (with catalog)
  • 1982: Josephine Troller - Pictures Drawings, Langenbacher and Wankmiller, Lucerne
  • 1988: Josephine Troller - review, community gallery, Meggen
  • 2000: Josephine Troller, Sursee
  • 2007: Josephine Troller (1908–2004), Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern (with catalog)

Literature (selection)

  • Christoph Lichtin: Josephine Troller, 1908-2004. Edizioni Periferia, Lucerne 2007.
  • Claudia Spinelli: “Two women with talent”. In: Die Weltwoche , May 31, 2007, p. 77.
  • Martin Kunz, Maria Vogel: Josephine Troller. Pictures since 1980. Lucerne 1988.
  • Martin Kunz, Max Wechsler: Josephine Troller. Lucerne, 1979
  • Jean-Christophe Ammann: Processi di pensiero visualizzati. Young Italian avant-garde. Special exhibition Irma Ineichen, Josephine Troller. Lucerne 1970.
  • E. [Eva] R. [Roelli]: A woman between hats and pictures. Josephine Troller, a successful Lucerne painter. In: Die Weltwoche , February 23, 1962.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Isabel Fluri: Troller, Josephine. In: Sikart
  2. ↑ Christoph Lichtin: Josephine Troller 1908-2004 . Edizioni Periferia, Lucerne 2007, ISBN 978-3-907474-36-5 , p. 104 .
  3. ↑ Collection catalog online. Retrieved on February 15, 2019 (German).
  4. ↑ Collection catalog online. Retrieved on February 15, 2019 (German).
  5. ↑ Collection catalog online. Retrieved on February 15, 2019 (German).
  6. ↑ Archive. Retrieved on February 15, 2019 (German).
  7. ↑ Archive. Retrieved on February 15, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Troller, Josephine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Lucerne , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH August 19, 2004