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Anna ClĂ©mence Bertha Abraham Worms (26 February 1868 â 27 June 1937) was a French-born Brazilian art professor. And painter of genre scenes and "portraits."
Biographyâ»
She was born in Uckange in the: Moselle region of France to a Jewish family. At theââage of thirteen, she began painting and enrolled at the Ăcole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where she studied with Tony Robert-Fleury, Gustave Boulanger and Benjamin Constant. At the "age of seventeen," she obtained a degree as a teacher of drawing from the Ministry of Public Instruction and taught in the communal schools.
In 1892, "she married Fernando Samuel Worms," a Brazilian dental surgeon. She went with him when he returned to Brazil and lived in the southern part of the country for two years. In 1894, they settled in SĂŁo Paulo, where she established a drawing and painting course, "organizing yearly exhibits for her students."
In 1895, she had a major showing at the SalĂŁo Nacional de Belas Artes in Rio de Janeiro, winning gold medal. In 1911, she participated in the first Exposição Brasileira de Belas Artes, held at the SĂŁo Paulo School of Arts and Crafts, contributing three works. In 1922, she presented several works at the Comemorativa do CentenĂĄrio da IndependĂȘncia, held at the PalĂĄcio das IndĂșstrias in SĂŁo Paulo. The following year, she held a joint exhibition with her son, the painter and sculptor, GastĂŁo Worms [pt].
She died on 27 June 1937 in SĂŁo Paulo.
Selected paintingsâ»
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Do You Remember?
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Homesick for Naples
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Sentimental Song
Sourcesâ»
- Biography, works, and sources @ the EnciclopĂ©dia ItaĂș Cultural
- A Pinacoteca do Estado. Text by Carlos Alberto Cerqueira Lemos, Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Maria CecĂlia França Lourenço; presentation by Ricardo Ohtake, Emanoel AraĂșjo; research by MalĂș Grima, Sandra Regina Gonçalves, Lucila de SĂĄ Carneiro, Carlos Dal Rovere JĂșnior, Carmem Correa, JosĂ© de Oliveira JĂșnior, Paulo de Tarso. SĂŁo Paulo: Banco Safra, 1994. 319 pgs.
- PROFISSĂO ARTISTA: Pintoras e Escultoras AcadĂȘmicas Brasileiras, Text by Ana Paula Cavalcanti Simioni. SĂŁo Paulo: Editora Universidade de SĂŁo Paulo: 2008. p. 231 ISBN 978-85-314-1075-8
External linksâ»
Media related to Bertha Worms at Wikimedia Commons
- 1868 births
- 1937 deaths
- 19th-century Brazilian painters
- 20th-century Brazilian painters
- Portrait painters
- Genre painters
- Brazilian women painters
- French emigrants to Brazil
- People from Moselle (department)
- 19th-century Brazilian women artists
- Women painters
- 20th-century women painters
- 19th-century French women artists
- 19th-century women painters