Anna Waser | |
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_-_Kunsthaus_Z%25C3%25BCrich.jpg) Self-portrait, 1691 | |
| Born | (1678-10-16)16 October 1678 Zurich |
| Died | 20 September 1714(1714-09-20) (aged 35) |
| Nationality | Swiss |
| Known for | painting |
Anna Waser (16 October 1678 – 20 September 1714) was aSwisspainter.
Anna Waser was born in 1678, the fifth child of a wealthy and respected family inZurich.
According toJean-Baptiste Descamps she was born in Zurich in 1679 and became a pupil ofJoseph Werner. According to the RKD she was born a year earlier and was an engraver and miniature painter.[1]
Her parents were Esther Müller and the bailiff Johann Rudolf Waser, an educated man who promoted the talent of his daughter. He had her trained as a painter, despite all social conventions. When she could not learn anything on her first teacher Johannes Sulzer, she went at fourteen toBern to study withJoseph Werner, one of the leading Swiss painter. Four years she remained as the only girl among his male students, in his "learning workshop for painting". Then she returned to her family to Zurich. There they received portrait commissions from the large circle. Also outside the city people became aware of the young painter. In 1699, Anna Waser now 21 years old, was appointed by the art-loving CountWilhelm Moritz von Solms-Braunfels as court painter to hisSchloss Braunfels [de] an der Lahn inHessen.
Instead of a planned trip to Paris, she was asked back to Zurich, because the mother was ill and her brother Johann Rudolf, a tutor in Braunfels, decided to travel as a military chaplain to Holland. From about 1702, she now had to look after the home of her parents, and her painting suffered. She painted only here and there a portrait or a little pastoral scenes, for which she had at that time been famous.[citation needed]In 1708, she was together with her sisters Anna and Maria Elisabeth Waser continued some drawings. They finally sent her autobiography, a program executed in silver point techniqueSelf-portrait and other works of art toJacob von Sandrart for a scheduled update of his art lexiconTeutsche Academie. In 1714 Anna Waser died at the age of 35 years as the consequences of a fall.[citation needed]
In 1998 Anna Waser's work was honoured by theGesellschaft zu Fraumünster.[2][3]
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