Objekt 2
Full-length portrait of the 19-year-old Olga Vischer (1879-1963)
Description
Olga Vischer (1879-1963) was the daughter of the Basel manufacturer Wilhelm Vischer (1850-1886). In 1901, she married the Swiss builder and Art Nouveau architect Wilhelm Adolf Bernoulli (1869-1909). She founded the aid organization "Schweizer Bund", which brought thousands of malnourished German children to Switzerland every year after the end of the First World War and cared for them.
Object description
Painter: Charles Giron (1850-1914)
Basel(?), dated 1898
Oil on canvas
Gift Georgine Bernoulli
1986.79.