Klara Borter

Klara Cécile Borter (born March 11, 1888 in Interlaken , † August 20, 1948 in Meiringen ) was a Swiss painter and graphic artist . Her works include landscapes, portraits and figures.

Life

Klara Borter was born as the daughter of the hotelier Friedrich Borter (1854–1921) from the Deutsches Hof in Interlaken. Borter received his artistic training in Brienz with Max Buri , a contemporary of Cuno Amiet , Giovanni Giacometti , Ferdinand Hodler and Edouard Vallet . Buri was the initiator of the "First International Art Exhibition in Switzerland", which took place in 1909 in the Kursaal Interlaken. Klara Borter, sponsored by Buri, took part with her figures and landscapes in oil .

Klara Borter was also a student of Arnold Böcklin . From 1907 to 1909 she attended the Arnold Böcklin studio in Zurich. Borter belonged to the so-called Bern painting school . She exhibited at several national exhibitions in Switzerland and an international exhibition in Rome. It was also represented at Swiss rotating exhibitions and Christmas exhibitions in Bern.

Wengen (around 1933)

Borter's advertising posters for the Jungfrau - Wengen region are traded at international auctions. Her poster Wengen ( color lithograph , 104 × 67 cm, around 1933) achieved a maximum bid of over 6,000 dollars at Christie's .

The Kunstmuseum Thun owns a collection of Borter's works and showed, among other things, some portraits of women in the exhibition This is a Women's World in 2012 . 10 years of women's art award .

Exhibitions

• 1909: 1st International Art Exhibition in Switzerland, Interlaken
• 1910: X. National Exhibition, Kunsthaus Zürich
• 1911: International Exhibition, Rome (I)
• 1912: XI. National exhibition, Neuchâtel
• 1914: XII. National exhibition, Bern
• 1918: Collective exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Bern
• 1925: XVI. National exhibition, Kunsthaus Zurich

posthumously

• 2007: back light. Art Museum Thun
• 2011: Profession: Farmer. A collection exhibition with guests. Art Museum Thun
• 2012: This is a Women's World. 10 years of women's art award. Art Museum Thun

Web links

• Borter, Klara Cécile. In: Sikart
• Klara Cecile Borter on artnet
• Klara Cecile Borter at Christie's

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rémy Charbon, Corinna Jäger-Trees, Dominik Müller (eds.): Selling Switzerland: Interrelationships between tourism, literature and the arts since 1800. Chronos-Verlag, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-03-401010-8 , p. 298.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} H. Türler: Borter, Klara. In: Carl Brun: Schweizerisches Künstler-Lexikon , Schweizerischer Kunstverein, Huber, Frauenfeld 1917, Part 4, Supplement A - Z, p. 52.
3. ^ Hans Vollmer: General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. Seemann, Leipzig 1953, p. 272.
4. ↑ Regula Bolleter, Hans Maurer (ed.): The "Bern School": a private collection. Artist in the footsteps of Ferdinand Hodler. Benteli, Bern 2008, ISBN 978-3-7165-1544-0 , p. 14.
5. ↑ This unfortunate term, which can be understood from the bias of temporal proximity, goes back to the Bern critic Hans Bloesch, who, in addition to Borter, also worked with artists such as Cuno Amiet (1868–1961), Louis Moilliet (1880–1962), Max Buri (1868– 1915), Max Brach (1878–1950), Eduard Boss (1873–1958), Emil Cardinaux (1877–1936), Ernst Linck (1874–1935) and Werner Feuz (1882–1956) belonged to the Bern painting school.
6. ↑ Klara Borter: Wengen christies.com, accessed on November 25, 2012.
7. ↑ Annual program of the Kunstmuseum Thun ( Memento of the original from July 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. kunstmuseumthun.ch, accessed on November 30, 2012. 
8. ↑ Collective exhibition: Klara Borter, Interlaken; Charles Flach, Brigels; Alfred Glaus, Bern; Adolf Holzmann, Zurich; Wilhelm Koenig, Biel; Johann Zahnd , Schwarzenburg. Catalog Kunstmuseum Bern, 14.4. - 5.5.1918. Kunstmuseum Bern, 1918.