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

Lill Tschudi
Born	2 September 1911 Schwanden, Glarus, Switzerland
Died	19 September 2004 Schwanden, Glarus, Switzerland
Occupation	Artist, printmaker, illustrator

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]

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