MÜLLER-BRITSCHGY, Berta (The Artist’s Sister-in-Law)
Description:
Bust length wearing her wedding dress and veil. Oil on canvas 18” x 15” (45.6 x 38 cm), signed lower left ‘A Muller Ury 1894.’ The back of the canvas says ‘Berta Müller Britschgi 1894 July.’
Location:
Private Collection, Switzerland.
Bibliography:
The Urner Wochenblatt, Altdorf, 19 July 1947, p.2 mentions this picture in the artist’s obituary.
She was born on 31 May 1871 and died on 10 September 1925, and married Alois ‘Luigi’ Muller on 30 May 1894.
Painted at Hospental for the sitter’s mother, Carolina Britschgi. In a letter in German from Muller-Ury to Carolina Britschgi in the possession of Elisabeth Tresch the artist tells her he is happy to paint a small picture of her daughter in her wedding dress. The Urner Wochenblatt, Altdorf, 19 July 1947, is mistaken in saying Alois Müller’s bride was called Angelina Britschgy.
