Pierrette Bloch
Swiss artist (1928-2017)
Pierrette Bloch (June 16, 1928 – July 7, 2017) was a Paris-born Swiss painter and textile artist.
Early life
Pierrette Bloch was born on June 16, 1928, in Paris. In 1939, Bloch and her parents left France for Switzerland escaping Nazi persecution as Jews. At the age of 15, she began living on her own in a hotel, which she says helped foster very early on a complete sense of independence and autonomy. After the liberation she returned to Paris and began her professional artistic training at the end of the 1940s, taking courses in sculptural arts.
Career
Starting 1947 she attended the classes of the cubist painter André Lhote, and in 1949 she was the first student of the American-born artist Henri Goetz. Bloch began exhibiting her works in Paris and the United States in the 1950s. At the age of 23 she had her first exposition in the Mai gallery. Later in her life she exhibited in many renowned museums in Europe, Asia, and the Americas, including the MoMA and the Centre Pompidou.
The ensemble of her works have their roots in the use of "poor" materials such as ink, paper, mesh, and horsehair.
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