Anna Indermaur (28 January 1894 – 23 October 1980) was a Swiss painter, sculptor, interior decorator, and filmmaker. She was the first woman film director in Switzerland.

Biography

Indermaur was born on 28 January 1894 in

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. She was a member of the In der Maur family, who once owned

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and

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in the

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. She joined the Groupe Suisse Abstraction et Surréalisme, founded by Leo Leuppi, in 1934 and was editor of the ''Dôme Journal'' from 1933 to 1935. Indermaur moved to

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and opened Nord-Süd cinema studio in 1935 as the first Swiss woman film director. The opening of her studio angered the established film community, which did not include women at the time, and led to boycotts of her studio. She was friends with

Else Lasker-Schüler Else Lasker-Schüler (née Elisabeth Schüler) (; 11 February 1869 – 22 January 1945) was a German-Jewish poet and playwright famous for her bohemian lifestyle in Berlin and her poetry. She was one of the few women affiliated with the Expres ...

and they held readings together at her cinema studio. She joined the artist group Allianz, founded by Leuppi and

Richard Paul Lohse Richard Paul Lohse (September 13, 1902 – September 16, 1988) was a Swiss painter and graphic artist and one of the main representatives of the concrete and constructive art movements. Lohse was born in Zürich in 1902. His wish to study in Pa ...

, in 1937. She created wallpaper and furniture designs, and set up Paul Facchetti's gallery in Zürich. She died on 23 October 1980.

References

{{Authority control 1894 births 1980 deaths 20th-century Swiss painters 20th-century Swiss sculptors 20th-century Swiss women artists Anna People from the canton of St. Gallen Swiss surrealist artists Swiss women film directors Swiss women sculptors Swiss women painters