Lill Tschudi
Born2 September 1911
Schwanden, Glarus, Switzerland
Died19 September 2004
Schwanden, Glarus, Switzerland
Occupation(s)Artist, printmaker, illustrator

Lill Tschudi (2 September 1911 – 19 September 2004)[1] was a Swiss artist associated with the Grosvenor School of Modern Art.

Early life and education

Lill Tschudi was born at Schwanden, Glarus, Switzerland. As a girl she saw an exhibit of linocut prints by Austrian artist Norbertine Bresslern Roth, and decided that she also wanted to be a printmaker. Tschudi studied at the Grosvenor School of Modern Art, in London, from 1929 to 1930.[2] From 1931 to 1933, she lived in Paris and studied with André Lhote, Gino Severini, and Fernand Léger.[3]

Career

Tschudi returned to Switzerland in 1935, and lived mainly with her sister's family (her sister was also an artist).[4] Tschudi would produce over 300 linocuts in her career, exhibiting in London with Claude Flight and other printmakers.[5] Her typical subjects included athletes, such as skiers and cyclists,[6] transportation scenes, workers and musicians. A wartime side project with her sister Ida involved printing illustrations for "Glarner Gemeindewappen," a booklet of the municipal coats-of-arms for the Canton of Glarus, in 1941 (this booklet is now considered rare and quite valuable).[7] Her 1933 print "Ice Hockey" was used for the cover illustration of Margaret Timmers, Impressions of the 20th Century: Fine Art Prints from the V&A Collection (Victoria & Albert Museum Publications 2001).[8]

Personal life

Tschudi died in Switzerland in 2004, age 93.[1]

Legacy

Works by Tschudi featured in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Metropolitan Museum of Art's joint 2008 exhibit, British Prints from the Machine Age: Rhythms of Modern Life, 1914–1939.[9] Prints by Grosvenor School artists, including Tschudi, proved popular at a 2012 auction in London.[10] Her works were part of another exhibit in spring 2013, "The Cutting Edge of Modernity: An Exhibition of Grosvenor School Linocuts" at the Osborne Samuel Gallery in London;[11] a similarly-named July–September 2019 exhibition at the Dulwich Picture Gallery also showed her work.[12]

References

  1. ^ a b "Lill Tschudi (Biographical details)". British Museum.
  2. ^ Stephen Coppel, Linocuts of the Machine Age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School (Scolar Press 1995).
  3. ^ Gordon, Samuel; Leaper, Hana; Lock, Tracey; Vann, Philip; Scott, Jennifer (13 August 2019). Gordon, Samuel (ed.). Cutting Edge: Modernist British Printmaking (Exhibition Catalogue) (1st ed.). Philip Wilson Publishers. p. 40. ISBN 978-1-78130-078-7.
  4. ^ "Growing Up with Lill Tschudi: An Interview with her Niece," Christie's (8 November 2012).
  5. ^ Gordon Samuel and Nicola Penny, The Cutting Edge of Modernity: Linocuts of the Grosvenor School (Lund Humphries 2002).
  6. ^ Mike O'Mahony, "Imaging Sports at the Grosvenor School of Modern Art," in Mike Huggins and Mike O'Mahony, eds. The Visual in Sport (Routledge 2013): 21.
  7. ^ "Lill Tschudi," Idbury Prints[usurped].
  8. ^ Margaret Timmers, Impressions of the 20th Century: Fine Art Prints from the V&A Collection (Victoria & Albert Museum Publications 2001).
  9. ^ Clifford S. Ackley, British Prints from the Machine Age: Rhythms of Modern Life, 1914–1939 (2008, exhibition catalog).
  10. ^ Colin Gleadell, "London Original Print Art Fair: Prints That Move Like Lightening"[sic], The Telegraph (17 April 2012).
  11. ^ Richard Moss, "The Cutting Edge of Modernity," Culture24 (10 April 2013)
  12. ^ Trigg, David (November–December 2019). "Slicing Modern Life: Grosvenor School Linocuts". Art in Print. 9: 36–39.
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