Martha Haffter

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Martha Haffter (born May 8, 1873 in Frauenfeld ; † December 13, 1951 there ) was a Swiss painter .

life and work

Martha Haffter was the daughter of the government councilor Johann Konrad Haffter (1837-1914) and Anna Magdalena Munz. Martha Haffter was an intern from 1893 to 1900 in the arts and crafts department of the Winterthur technical center . In 1900 she went to the women's academy of the Munich Artists' Association and then for another year to the newly opened women's studio of the portraitist Fritz Burger in Basel.

From 1902 to 1905 she studied at the Académie Julian and Académie de la Grande Chaumière with Marcel André Baschet and François Schommer. This was followed by his first participation in exhibitions at the “Künstlerhaus Zürich” and, until 1944, further participation in various exhibitions in Switzerland and France.

In the spring of 1939 Martha Haffter traveled to Paris for the last time. When she returned, she lived secluded in her parents' house “Zum Nussbaum” in Frauenfeld with the family of her younger sister Elsa Wartenweiler.

In addition to commissioned portraits and pictures of children, Martha Haffter mainly painted landscapes, city and house views, nude studies and flower pictures. Her estate is in the Thurgau State Archives .

In 2019 the Kunstverein Frauenfeld exhibited around 90 paintings and drawings as well as previously unpublished sketches and documents by Martha Haffter in the “Bernerhaus”.

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personal data
SURNAME Haffter, Martha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Frauenfeld
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 1951
Place of death Frauenfeld