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Iris Von Roten As Artist, Hortensia Von Roten

Swiss American Historical Society Review

Introduction to Blumenblicke Zurich: eFeF Verlag, 1993.

Iris vonRoten (1917-1990) was a painter who was driven by an inner need to express her aesthetic vision with unrnediated directness. In contrast to her published work, her paintings are not an invitation to public discourse, but to the enjoyment of the world of flowers in their various forms and colors. She wanted to create a hundred works of art before her oeuvre was to be shown in public. When eye problems prevented her from painting at the end of the 1980s, she had created fifty-six works in oil and about twenty on …