Lottie Neher

Lottie Neher (born May 31, 1894 in Plons near Mels , † February 27, 1927 in Paris ) was a Swiss painter .

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Charlotte ('Lottie') Neher was the first daughter and the second of five children of Oscar Neher von Schaffhausen and Laura, a née Stockar vom Berg in Zurich . She spent her first youth in the so-called “manor house” in Plons (Mels municipality). In 1913 the family moved to Maienfeld to the Villa Franz on Steigstrasse.

Falknis, oil on cardboard

At the request of her parents, Lottie Neher enjoyed a varied education. After a stay in Switzerland, she attended an agricultural and home economics school in Germany . Lottie Neher was trained as a pediatric nurse at the Zurich nursing school.

Lottie Neher's great talent for painting was shown early on. She initially trained as a painter in Munich and then in Zurich. Wenzel Wirkner from Karlsbad (1864–1947), who worked primarily as a landscape painter in Munich, and Hermann Gattiker (1865–1950), head of a painters' colony in Rüschlikon near Zurich and also a pronounced landscape painter, had a decisive influence on the artistic development of Lottie Neher. Both aroused in her a special fondness for landscape painting . Her pictures mostly show the area around Maienfeld with the falconry as well as landscapes from other areas of the canton of Graubünden , especially from the Engadin . Lottie Neher's parents could never get their daughter to exhibit their works.

Lottie Neher traveled to Paris for the first time in 1926 for further training , where she and a friend took up residence for a certain period in early 1927. Several pictures were taken in Paris and the surrounding area. From Paris, Lottie Neher visited her brother in Spain in 1927 . This is the only way to explain their works with Spanish landscape motifs.

In February 1927 she fell ill with typhus in Paris and died on February 20 at the age of almost 33. The urn rests in the family grave recently donated by father Oscar Neher in the forest cemetery in Schaffhausen .

literature

• Johannes Fulda: An artist's life in secret. The painter Lottie Neher (1894–1927) from Maienfeld and her work . In: Terra Plana 1/2011, pp. 30-33.

Web link

• Portrait on page 23 of the district official gazette (PDF; 2.0 MB)