Marion Wagschal

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Marion Wagschal
Born1943 (age 81–82)
Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
NationalityCanadian
Education

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]

Career

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 emigrated 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]

References

  1. 1 2 "Collection:Marion Wagschal".
  2. 1 2 3 A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, volumes 1-8 by Colin S. MacDonald, and volume 9 (online only), by Anne Newlands and Judith Parker National Gallery of Canada / Musée des beaux-arts du Canada
  3. ↑ "Marion Wagschal on her figurative art". www.youtube.com. You Tube. Retrieved 2021-07-09.
  4. ↑ "Marion Wagschal, 2020". www.youtube.com. You Tube. Retrieved 2021-07-09.
  5. 1 2 "Marion Wagschal". art-history.concordia.ca. Concordia. Retrieved 2021-07-09.
  6. 1 2 "Marion Wagschal". WWW.MUSEEJOLIETTE.ORG/EN/EXPOSITIONS/MARION-WAGSCHAL. Musée d'art de Joliette. Retrieved 2021-07-09.
  7. ↑ "A Closer Look at the Confessional Works of Marion Wagschal". www.anothermag.com. AnOther magazine. Retrieved 2021-07-09.
  8. ↑ Everett-Green, Globe and Mail, 2015, Robert. "Marion Wagschal retrospective shows paintings saturated with time".{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  9. ↑ "Rétrospective Marion Wagschal: Allégories de la vulnérabilité". 13 April 2015.
  10. ↑ "MMFA Collection: Marion Wagschal, Artists and Children".
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