# List of Swiss women artists

This is a list of women artists who were born in Switzerland or whose artworks are closely associated with that country.

## A

* Anna Maria Barbara Abesch (1706–1773), reverse glass painter
* Eva Aeppli (1925–2015), painter, sculptor
* Albertine (born 1967), illustrator, mainly of children's books

## B

* Alice Bailly (1872–1938), Cubist painter
* Marie-Claire Baldenweg (born 1954), contemporary artist
* Maria Cecilia Adelaide Bass (1897–1948), painter
* Ursula Biemann (born 1955), video artist
* Hélène Binet (born 1959), architectural photographer
* Alice Boner (1889–1981), painter, sculptor, historian
* Sonam Dolma Brauen (born 1953), Tibetan-Swiss contemporary painter and sculptor
* Louise Catherine Breslau (1856–1927), German-born Swiss painter, pastelist and printmaker
* Mauren Brodbeck (born 1974), photographer
* Henriette Brossin de Polanska (1878–1954), painter
* Heidi Bucher (1926–1993), sculptor
* Karin Karinna Bühler (born 1974), contemporary visual artist
* Jenny Burckhardt (1849–1935), painter
* Martha Burkhardt (1874–1956), painter and photographer

## C

* Miriam Cahn (born 1949), painter
* Claudia Christen (born 1973), designer and photographer
* Aloïse Corbaz (1886–1964), outsider artist
* Louise de Corcelles (1726–1796), amateur artist
* Corinne Cuéllar-Nathan (born 1958), landscape painter
* Martha Cunz (1876–1961), printmaker, lithographer
* Marie-Antoinette Chiarenza (born 1957), member of the artist collective RELAX (chiarenza & hauser & co), contextual artist

## D

* Adèle d'Affry (1836–1879), artist and sculptor
* Helen Dahm (1878–1968), expressionist artist
* Silvie Defraoui (born 1935), visual artist
* Dr. Gindi (born 1965), sculptor

## E

* Ulla Engeberg Killias (1945–1995), Swedish-born Swiss painter

## F

* Janika Fabrikant (born 1934), French-born Swiss Surrealist industrial painter
* Valérie Favre (born 1959), painter
* Marie Ferrier-Perregaux (1777–1838), painter
* Sylvie Fleury (born 1961), pop artist
* Annemie Fontana (1925–2002), sculptor, painter
* Pia Fries (born 1955), painter
* Anna Füssli (1749–1772), painter

## G

* Babeli Giezendanner (1831–1905), painter
* Alwina Gossauer (1841–1926), photographer
* Henriette Grindat (1923–1986), photographer
* Françoise Grossen (born 1943), textile artist
* Maria Gugelberg von Moos (1836–1918), botanist and floral artist
* Alis Guggenheim (1896–1958), painter, sculptor

## H

* Andrea Hasler (born 1975), contemporary artist
* Christine Hiebert (born 1960), artist known for her drawing
* Beatrice Helg (born 1956), photographer
* Maria Herrmann-Kaufmann (1921–2008), painter
* Cornelia Hesse-Honegger (born 1944), scientific painter and illustrator
* Olivia Heussler (born 1957), photographer
* Susette Hirzel (1769–1858), painter
* Britta Huttenlocher (born 1962)
* Heidrun Huwyler (born 1942), German-Swiss Impressionist painter

## K

* Angelica Kauffman (1741–1807), Neoclassical painter
* Elisabetta Keller (1891–1969), painter and pastelist
* Emma Kunz (1892–1963), visual artist

## L

* Rosa Lachenmeier (born 1959), contemporary artist
* Warja Lavater (1913–2007), designer, illustrator
* Louise-Émilie Leleux-Giraud (1824–1885), painter active in France
* Catherine Leutenegger (born 1983), visual artist
* Henriette L'Hardy (1766–1808), painter
* Verena Loewensberg (1912–1986), painter, graphic designer
* Jeanne Lombard (1865–1945), painter
* Ingeborg Lüscher (born 1936), artist, working with painting, sculpture, photography, installation and video

## M

* Ella Maillart (1903–1997), adventurer, travel writer and photographer
* Brigitta Malche (born 1938), painter and installation artist
* Maria Marshall (born 1966), visual artist
* Annemarie von Matt (1905–1967), painter, graphic artist and writer
* Caroline Mezger (1787–1843), Swiss painter, printmaker, and teacher
* Elvezia Michel-Baldini (1887–1963), painter and illustrator
* Pierrette Micheloud (1915–2007), writer and painter
* Mascha Mioni (born 1941), painter and textile artist
* Alina Mnatsakanian (born 1958), visual artist
* Milo Moiré (born 1983), conceptual artist
* Franziska Möllinger (1817–1880), pioneering German-born Swiss photographer
* Karin Muller (born 1965), writer, filmmaker and photographer

## N

* Caro Niederer (born 1963), contemporary artist
* Marguerite Naville (1852–1930), painter, illustrator and photographer

## O

* Méret Oppenheim (1913–1985), German-born Swiss Surrealist artist
* Armande Oswald (born 1940), painter, scenographer

## P

* Leta Peer (1964–2012), painter and photographer
* Sibylle Pasche (born 1976), sculptor
* Valentine Pasche (born 1979), comics artist
* Mai-Thu Perret (born 1976), Swiss artist of Franco-Vietnamese origin

## R

* Marthe Rakine (1904–1996), Canadian-Swiss painter
* Clara von Rappard (1857–1912), painter
* Henriette Rath (1772–1856) Portrait artist
* Pipilotti Rist (born 1962), visual artist
* Ottilie Roederstein (1859–1937), German-Swiss painter
* Pamela Rosenkranz (born 1979), contemporary artist
* Annina Ruest (fl. 2000–), contemporary artist, academic

## S

* Jeanne-Pernette Schenker-Massot (1761–1828), miniaturist, pastelist and engraver
* Julieta Schildknecht (born 1960), Swiss-Brazilian photographer and journalist
* Erna Schillig (1900–1993), textile artist, mosaic and plaster muralist
* Anka Schmid (born 1961), film director and video artist
* Renée Schwarzenbach-Wille (1883–1959), photographer, diarist
* Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908–1942), writer, photographer and traveller
* Christine Sefolosha (born 1955), painter
* Sonia Sekula (1918–1963), expressionist artist
* Caroline Sophie Sordet-Boissonnas (1859–1943), painter
* Anita Spinelli (1908–2010), painter, drawer
* Annie Stebler-Hopf (1861–1918), painter
* Monika Steiner (born 1972), Swiss-born American artist and sculptor
* Martha Stettler (1870–1945), painter, engraver
* Marianne Straub (1909–1994), textile designer

## T

* Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889–1943), painter, sculptor, textile designer
* Elisabeth Terroux (1759–1822), painter
* Myriam Thyes (born 1963), Luxembourg-born Swiss media artist
* Miriam Tinguely (born 1950), painter and engraver
* Anna Maria Tobler (1882–1935), painter
* Anne Marie Trechslin (1927–2007), Italian-born Swiss painter, engraver and illustrator
* Natasha Tsakos (fl. 2000–), performance artist
* Lill Tschudi (1911–2004), linocut printmaker

## V

* Annie Vallotton (1915–2013), Bible illustrator
* Denise Voïta (1928–2008), painter, lithographer and tapestry designer

## W

* Isabelle Waldberg (1911–1990), sculptor
* Anna Waser (1678–1714), painter
* Charlotte Weiss (1870–1961), painter
* Lisa Wenger (1858–1941), painter and children's writer
* Marianne von Werefkin (1860–1938), Russian-Swiss Expressionist painter

## Z

* Albertine Zullo (born 1967), children's book illustrator