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Jeanne Marguerite Frey - SurbekJeanne Marguerite Frey - Surbek (Swiss, 1886-1981) c. 1935 Etching Gabés Tunesiac. 1935
c. 1935
About the Item
Jeanne Marguerite Frey-Surbek
(Swiss, * 23.2.1886 Delémont, † 17.5.1981 Bern)
Country Road near Gabés, Tunesia, North Africa
• Etching
• Platte, ca. 7 x 11 cm
• Sheet, ca. 33 x 25.5 cm
• Monogrammed lower right
• Edition noted lower left 74/100
• Printed title lower right
Looking through my stock, buyers will notice my liking of female artistes working in Switzerland and here I introduce you to another important heroine of Swiss artistes and present a sweet little Swiss School orientalist pre-war etching.
Commercially Marguerite Frey’s art seemed to be shadowed by the huge output the sought after of her husband Victor Surbek. However I have noticed say over the last decade, that her work is now being rediscovered and rightly so, re-appreciated. Consequently I have seen her prices rise slowly but steadily of the last years.
Marguerite Frey was the daughter of forest manager Jean-Albert Frey and his wife Lisa Juliette. During the early years of her life, Frey grew up in Delémont until the family moved to Bern in 1893. She later attended the art school here for two years and was a private student of Paul Klee from 1904 to 1906. On Klee's advice, she studied at the Académie Ranson from 1906 to 1911 with Lucien Simon, Félix Vallotton, Maurice Denis and Édouard Vuillard, where she met her future husband Victor Surbek.
After marrying in 1914, the couple ran a painting school in Bern from 1915 to 1931, where Serge Brignoni, Max Böhlen and Ernst Braker, among others, were taught. In Bern she created frescoes in the stairwell of the Bern trades school.
Initially, Frey-Surbek mainly painted portraits, later landscapes and still lifes. In spring and summer she mostly worked in Iseltwald on the Lake of Brienz, and during the rest of the year in Bern. She traveled frequently and stayed in other European countries, north Africa and America for long periods of time. She was strongly influenced by her stay in Calabria in 1932, which allowed her to find new color tones.
Frey-Surbek was socially and politically engaged. She founded the first day care center for girls in Bern, helped in refugee camps during the war, fought for women's suffrage, for the protection of Bern's old town and the preservation of the landscape arround the Lake of Brienz. From 1942 to 1948 she was a member of the Federal Art Commission (EKK) and a member of the Berne section of the Swiss Society of Female Artists (SGBK).
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- Creator:Jeanne Marguerite Frey - Surbek (1886 - 1981, Swiss)
- Creation Year:c. 1935
- Dimensions:Height: 13 in (33 cm)Width: 10.04 in (25.5 cm)Depth: 0.04 in (1 mm)
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- Condition:Strong impression and other than yellowed edges, the sheet is in fine condition with no damages or stains.
- Gallery Location:Meinisberg, CH
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