death_place death_date birth_place awards nationality field birth_date article_title name
zurich , switzerland 13 april 1981 legnano , italy 1969 honorary doctor , university of zürich swiss painting , sculpture , drawing 22 july 1889 alice boner
 alice boner
alice boner

alice boner -lrb- july 22 , 1889 -- april 13 , 1981 -rrb- was a swiss painter and sculptor , art historian , and an indologist .
she completed her training as a painter and sculptor in munich , brussels and basel , where she studied with carl burckhardt .
in her drawings she used pencil , charcoal , sepia , red chalk , ink , and sometimes pastel .
her early works focused on drawings , sculptures , portrait , full body studies , landscapes and nature observations .
the artist also harbored a great fascination for the art of dance and created motion studies of the three dancers lilly , jeanne , and leonie brown as well as the indian dancer uday shankar .
her sketches were spontaneous , a series of observations , that are usually performed only with a few quick strokes , and are focused on the essential characteristics of the body .
the collection of the rietberg museum houses a variety of sculptures and statues of alice boner from her youth .
between 1926 and 1930 , boner made trips to morocco , tunisia and india with the dancer uday shankar .
she decided in 1935 to migrate to india .
