The first new book on Swiss artist and printmaker Lill Tschudi in
decades.
Lill Tschudi (1911-2004), daughter of a merchant family from the rural
Swiss canton of Glarus, moved to London in 1929-30 to educate herself at
the Grosvenor School of Modern Art. She flourished in the vibrant
imperial capital of the inter-war years and soon gained wide recognition
for her bold and often colorful modernist linocuts. She continued her
artistic formation during several stays in the equally throbbing Paris
in 1930 and 1931. In the Anglo-Saxon world, her reputation as an
accomplished printmaker close to the Modernist British Printmaking
movement has lasted, and her works continue to fetch good prices at
auctions in Britain and Australia. New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art
holds some 120 of her prints in its permanent collection. Yet in her
native Switzerland, she has largely fallen into oblivion.
This book, published to coincide with an exhibition of Lill Tschudi's
work at Graphische Sammlung ETH Zurich in winter 2021-22, is the first
major monograph on this outstanding artist. It features previously
unpublished material from Tschudi's archive and from private
collections, shedding new light on her life and work, as well as a
wide-ranging selection of her colorful linocuts that demonstrates her
uniquely dynamic, colorful pictorial world. The essays explore and
analyze her choice of topics and artistic process and investigate what
made her art so popular abroad. Illuminating and beautifully
illustrated, this book is the perfect insight into this extraordinary
artist.
