Maja Sacher

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Maja Sacher , also Maja Sacher-Hoffmann and Maja Hoffmann-La Roche , before her second marriage Maja Hoffmann-Stehlin (born August 7, 1896 in Basel as Marie-Anne ; † August 8, 1989 in Frenkendorf ), was Emanuel's widow Hoffmann , a son of Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche , the founder of the Basel pharmaceutical company of the same name .

Life

Maja Sacher-Stehlin (1896–1989) sculptor, patroness, family grave at the Hörnli cemetery, Riehen, Basel-Stadt
Family grave in the Hörnli cemetery , Riehen, Basel-Stadt
Maja Sacher-Stehlin (1896–1989) sculptor, patroness, family grave at the Hörnli cemetery, Riehen, Basel-Stadt
Grave in the Hörnli cemetery , Riehen, Basel-Stadt

Maja Sacher was the daughter of Fritz Stehlin and Helena, born von Bavier (1862–1956). She grew up in Basel with two older brothers.

After finishing school, she trained as a sculptor with Baroness Wildenstein in Munich and Antoine Bourdelle in Paris .

In 1921 she married Emanuel Hoffmann. One year after the early death of her husband, she founded the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation with her significant art collection in order to continue the commitment to modern art that she shared with the eponym.

In 1934 she married Paul Sacher and lived with him on the "Hofgut Schönenberg" which she had designed high above Pratteln between Pratteln and Frenkendorf . The couple often host artists in need and act as patrons.

Maja Sacher, together with the architect Alfred Roth , made it possible for Henry van de Velde and his daughter Nele van de Velde to find a new home in Oberägeri on Lake Aegeri in 1947 .

Thanks to their support, in cooperation with the Christoph Merian Foundation, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Basel was opened in 1980 in a former industrial property.

The Laurenz Foundation founded by her granddaughter Maja Oeri made it possible to build the Schaulager in Münchenstein . This is where the foundation's works of art, which cannot be exhibited in the Kunstmuseum Basel or the Museum of Contemporary Art, are stored and shown.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst Kern : Seeing - Thinking - Acting of a surgeon in the 20th century. ecomed, Landsberg am Lech 2000, ISBN 3-609-20149-5 , p. 147.
  2. ^ Maja Sacher, Alfred Roth, Henry van de Velde. Oberägeri, 1947. Pages 447-450. ( PDF )
personal data
SURNAME Sacher, Maja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss art collector
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 1989
Place of death Frenkendorf