Marguerite Frey-Surbek
Marguerite Frey-Surbek (born February 23, 1886 in Delémont , † May 17, 1981 in Bern ; real name: Jeanne Marguerite Surbek-Frey ) was a Swiss painter .
Life
Marguerite Frey was the daughter of the forester and descendant of an old Basel councilor family Jean-Albert Frey and his wife Lisa Juliette nee. Calame. During the first years of her life, she grew up in Delémont until the family moved to Bern in 1893. Later Frey attended the arts and crafts school here for two years and was Paul Klee's private student from 1904 to 1906 . On Klee's advice, she studied at the Académie Ranson from 1906 to 1911 with Lucien Simon , Félix Vallotton , Maurice Denis and Édouard Vuillard , where she met her future husband, Victor Surbek . After their marriage in 1914, the couple ran a painting school in Bern from 1915 to 1931, where, among others, Serge Brignoni , Max Böhlen and Ernst Braker were taught. In Bern she created frescoes a . a. in the stairwell of the Bern industrial school.
In the beginning Frey mainly painted portraits , later more landscapes and still lifes . In spring and summer she mostly worked in Iseltwald on Lake Brienz , the rest of the year in Bern. She traveled often and stayed for longer periods in other European countries and America. She was strongly influenced by her stay in Calabria in 1932, which allowed her to find new colors.
Marguerite Frey-Surbek was also socially and politically engaged. She founded the first day care center for girls in Bern, helped in refugee camps during the war , fought for women’s right to vote , for the protection of the old town of Bern and the preservation of the Lake Brienz landscape. From 1942 to 1948 she was a member of the Federal Art Commission (EKK) and, before and after that, a member of the Bern section of the Swiss Society of Female Artists (SGBK).
Exhibitions
- since 1906 numerous solo and group exhibitions in Switzerland, some also abroad
- 1986: Memorial exhibitions in Delémont and Steffisburg
Publicly owned works
- Art Museum Bern
- Public art collection Basel, art museum
- Spiez Castle
- Art Museum Thun
- Musée jurassien d'art et d'histoire, Delémont
- Music, rhythm, dance, poetry and drawing in youthful forms (fresco 1941), Bern, stairwell trade school
Web links
- Zita Caviezel-Rüegg: Frey [-Surbek], Marguerite. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Zita Caviezel-Rüegg: Frey-Surbek, Jeanne Marguerite. In: Sikart
- Literature by and about Marguerite Frey-Surbek in the catalog of the German National Library
- Website about Marguerite Frey-Surbek and Victor Surbek
- Walter Reitz: Marguerite Frey-Surbek In: E-Periodica
literature
Markus Schneider: The Surbeks. Victor & Marguerite; a Bernese artist couple . Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-85881-441-8
Individual evidence
- ^ Christian Geelhaar: Klee, Paul. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-00192-3 , pp. 722-727 ( digitized version ).
- ^ Architecture and Art, 1938: Fresko, page. 370-371. Retrieved October 20, 2019 .
- ^ Architecture and Art, 1941: 1st prize, fresco in the Bern industrial school. Retrieved October 20, 2019 .
- ↑ Schweizerische Bauzeitung, 1940: Jury and award winners. Retrieved October 20, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Frey-Surbek, Marguerite |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Surbek-Frey, Jeanne Marguerite (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 23, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Delémont |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 17, 1981 |
| Place of death | Bern |