Anna Clémence Bertha Abraham Worms (26 February 1868 – 27 June 1937) was a French-born

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ian art professor and painter of

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scenes and portraits.

Biography

She was born in Uckange in the Moselle region of France to a Jewish family. At the age of thirteen, she began painting and enrolled at the in Paris, where she studied with

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and

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. 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

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. 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

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, where she established a drawing and painting course; organizing yearly exhibits for her students. In 1895, she had a major showing at the Salão Nacional de Belas Artes in

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, winning a gold medal. In 1911, she participated in the first Exposição Brasileira de Belas Artes, held at the

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, contributing three works. In 1922, she presented several works at the Comemorativa do Centenário da Independência, held at the

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in São Paulo. The following year, she held a joint exhibition with her son, the painter and sculptor, . She died on 27 June 1937 in São Paulo.

Selected paintings

File:Bertha Worms - Recordas-te, 1906.jpg, Do You Remember? Image:Bertha Worms - Saudades de Nápoles, 1895.JPG, Homesick for Naples Image:Bertha Worms - Retrato de Beduíno, s.d..jpg, Bedouin Image:Bertha Worms - Canção Sentimental.jpg, Sentimental Song

Sources

Biography, works, and sources
@ the Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural * ''A Pinacoteca do Estado''. Text by Carlos Alberto Cerqueira Lemos, Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Maria Cecília França Lourenço; presentation by Ricardo Ohtake, Emanoel Araújo; research by Malú Grima, Sandra Regina Gonçalves, Lucila de Sá Carneiro, Carlos Dal Rovere Júnior, Carmem Correa, José de Oliveira Júnior, Paulo de Tarso. São Paulo: Banco Safra, 1994. 319 pgs. * ''PROFISSÃO ARTISTA: Pintoras e Escultoras Acadêmicas Brasileiras'', Text by Ana Paula Cavalcanti Simioni. São Paulo: Editora Universidade de São Paulo: 2008. p. 231

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