Petra Petitpierre

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Petra Petitpierre (born as Frieda Kessinger May 13, 1905 in Zurich ; died December 23, 1959 in Murten ) was a Swiss painter, draftsman and graphic artist.

Life

Frieda Kessinger did a commercial apprenticeship from 1921 to 1923. She then took a modeling and drawing course in Zurich with Eduard Bick and studied at the ETH Zurich in 1926/27 . From 1927 to 1929 she attended the Bauhaus in Dessau and took the preliminary course with Josef Albers and Wassily Kandinsky . She became a master class student under Paul Klee , followed this to the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 1931 , where she completed her studies. In 1932 she worked for Fernand Léger in Paris. In 1933 she went back to Switzerland.

In 1934 she married the architect Hugo Petitpierre (1877–1967), they had a child and lived in Murten. In the marriage she had little time to develop artistically, the difficult marriage was later separated, and Petitpierre now worked very intensively. She took part in exhibitions at home and abroad, in 1945 she had a solo exhibition in Bern, which brought her public recognition. Petitpierre was a member of the Allianz Group , the GSMBK and the Lyceum Club. In 1957 she got polyarthritis .

Works, exhibitions (selection)

  • Change of form in painting . Lecture. Lyceum Club Zurich, 1954.
  • From Paul Klee's painting class . Benteli, Bern 1957.
  • The Murten time . Exhibition. Historical Museum Murten, 1988.
  • Petra Petitpierre . Exhibition. Kunstmuseum Olten , 1995.

literature

  • Tina Roßbroich: Petitpierre, Petra . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 95, de Gruyter, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-11-023261-5 , p. 252.
  • Tina Roßbroich: Petra Petitpierre (1905–1959): Life and Work; with a catalog raisonné of the paintings and other techniques (drawing, collage, watercolor, pastel). Dissertation. Trier, 2001. As a manuscript. Berlin: dissertation.de, 2003, ISBN 3-89825-629-4 .
  • Oliver Zybok et al. (Ed.): Bauhaus. The art of the students: works from the collection of the Bauhaus Dessau. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2013, ISBN 978-3-7757-3600-8 .
  • Manfred Clemenz: The myth of Paul Klee: a biographical and cultural-historical investigation. Böhlau, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-412-50186-0 .
  • Maxi Sickert : Petra Petitpierre - In search of the inner picture. Zellermayer Galerie, Berlin 2011. Link to the essay

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personal data
SURNAME Petitpierre, Petra
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kessinger, Frieda (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter, draftsman and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1959
Place of death Murten