Marion Wagschal | |
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Born | 1943 (age 81–82) Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago |
Nationality | Canadian |
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Marion Wagschal RCA (born 1943) is a feminist Canadian painter known for figurative work which sometimes refers to the Holocaust and to her own personal history. [1] [2] [3]
She was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago in 1943; her German parents emigrated there from Cologne, Germany in 1939. [4] In 1951, Wagschal immigrated to Canada with her family and settled in Montreal. [2] In 1962, she received a Teaching Diploma from MacDonald College, McGill University, and in 1975, a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Sir George Williams University (later Concordia University), Montreal. [2] [5] She taught painting and drawing at Concordia University for 37 years, and developed an innovative seminar/workshop entitled Women and Painting. [5] [6]
Her images are said to "bleed nostalgia and emotion" and concern the ravages of time on human flesh. [7] A travelling retrospective titled Marion Wagschal: Portraits, Memories Fables was organized by Sarah Fillmore for the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia in 2014 and was shown at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in 2015. [8] [9] In 2017, the Musée d'art de Joliette held an exhibition of her work. Among the public galleries which have her paintings are the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, [1] the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, [10] the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Confederation Centre of the Arts (Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island), the Robert McLaughlin Gallery (Oshawa, Ontario) and Plattsburgh State Art Museum (Plattsburgh, New York). [6]
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