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Alice Boner | |
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| Born | 22 July 1889 |
| Died | 13 April 1981 (aged 91) |
| Nationality | Swiss |
| Known for | painting, sculpture, drawing |
| Awards | 1969 Honorary Doctor, University of Zürich 1974 Padma Bhushan[1] |
Bronze by Alice Boner, in Rieterpark Zurich
Alice Boner (22 July 1889 – 13 April 1981) was a Swiss painter and sculptor, art historian, and an Indologist.
In her drawings she used pencil, charcoal, sepia, red chalk, ink, and sometimes pastel. Her early works focused on drawings, sculptures, portrait, full body studies, landscapes and nature observations. The artist also harbored a great fascination for the art of dance and created motion studies of the three dancers Lilly, Jeanne, and Leonie Brown as well as the Indian dancer Uday Shankar. Her sketches were spontaneous, a series of observations, that are usually performed only with a few quick strokes, and are focused on the essential characteristics of the body.[citation needed] The collection of the Rietberg Museum houses a variety of sculptures and statues of Alice Boner from her youth.[2]
Between 1926 and 1930, Boner made trips to Morocco, Tunisia and India with the dancer Uday Shankar. She decided in 1935 to migrate to India.[3]
- ^ Kuratli, Andrea. "FotografIn". fotoCH. Büro für Fotografiegeschichte Bern. Retrieved June 11, 2013.
- ^ Boner, Alice (1982). Alice Boner und die Kunst Indiens. Museum Rietberg.
- ^ Boner, Alice (1982). Alice Boner und die Kunst Indiens. Museum Rietberg. pp. 11–15.