Maria Cecilia Adelaide bass
Maria Cecilia Adelaide Bass (born September 9, 1897 in Perosa Argentina , † September 11, 1948 in Basel ) was a Swiss painter , draftsman and illustrator .
Life
Maria Bass attended school in Turin , where her father ran the cotton spinning and weaving mills founded by her grandfather. In 1913 her family moved to Graubünden and settled in the little castle in Tamins . Maria Bass came to the Grand Ducal Victoriastift in Baden-Baden .
She received her first drawing lessons from 1915 to 1916 with Erica von Kager in Chur and continued her studies in 1916 at the École des Beaux-Arts in Geneva . From 1917 she attended the private painting school of Marguerite Frey-Surbek and Victor Surbek in Bern , studied further in 1920 and from 1924 to 1926 at the Académie Ranson in Paris with Maurice Denis .
She went on study trips to Venice , Florence and Rome , stayed in Ischia and Abano . Maria Bass returned to Bern in 1926 and married Ado von Salis in 1927.
In 1930 she traveled to Munich , Frankfurt am Main and Nuremberg , in 1932 to North Africa and in 1935 to Holland , Belgium and Paris . At the end of 1935 Maria Bass settled in Frankfurt am Main, and in 1936 she returned to Switzerland. Their marriage ended in divorce. She had to return to Tamins and Celerina / Schlarigna to take care of her mother Adelheid Clothilde Bass-von Albertini.
Maria Bass designed the Engadine village in 1938 for the Swiss School Murals and was co-founder of the Celerina section of the Bündner Heimatwerk. She held courses in which she taught young women handicrafts and painting. In 1947 she was elected to the Federal Employment Commission for Artists.
In 1948 Maria Bass died of cancer diagnosed too late in the women's hospital in Basel.
literature
- Beat Stutzer: Bass, Maria Cecilia Adelaide. In: Sikart
- Walter Lietha (editor): Maria Bass, life in pictures. Calven Verlag, 1997, ISBN 978-3-90526115-8 .
Web links
- Maria Bass. Biographical data and works in the Netherlands Institute for Art History (Dutch)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bass, Maria Cecilia Adelaide |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Salis-Bass, Maria Cecilia from |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 9, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Perosa Argentina |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 11, 1948 |
| Place of death | Basel |