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Erma Bossi | |
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 Portrait of Erma Bossi by Carlo Wostry | |
| Born | Erma Barrera-Bossi 9 June 1875 Pula, Austria-Hungary (now Croatia) |
| Died | 14 April 1952 (aged 76) Milan, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Known for | Painting |
| Movement | German Expressionism |
Erma Bossi (1875-1952) was an Italian German Expressionist painter. [1]
Bossi was born in 1875 in Pula. [2] She studied art in Munich and was associated with Gabriele Münter and Wassily Kandinsky. [3] She was a member of the Neue Künstlervereinigung München (Munich New Association of Artists). [4]
She died in 1952 in Milan, Italy. [5] Her work is in the collection of the Pinakothek der Moderne, the Kunsthalle Bremen, and the Kunsthalle Emden. In 2013 the Schlossmuseum Murnau held a retrospective of her work. [6]
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