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Encyclopedia > Eva Aeppli

Eva Aeppli is a Swiss artist who was born on 2 May 1925 at Zofingen in Switzerland. May 2 is the 122nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (123rd in leap years). ... Zofingen is a city in the canton of Aargau, Switzerland, with a population of 10092 ( as of 2003). ...


She spent her childhood in Basel where she attended the School of Decorative Arts. Later, in France, she began her artistic career as a painter. Aeppli then became interested in sculpting figurines in textile and in bronze. Basel (British English traditionally: Basle and more recently Basel , German: Basel , French: Bâle , Italian: Basilea ) is Switzerlands third most populous city (166,563 inhabitants (2004); 690,000 inhabitants in the conurbation stretching across the immediate cantonal and national boundaries made Basel Switzerlands second-largest urban area as...


In 1975, she discovered astrology thanks to Jacques Berthon and the painter Eric Leraille. Fifteen years later, she decided to combate poverty, oppression and ignorance in creating the Myrrahkir Foundation. Eva Aeppli currently lives in Normandy, France. Hand-coloured version of the anonymous Flammarion woodcut. ... Mont Saint-Michel, one of the famous symbols of Normandy. ...


Note: This article is a translation of the one on the Wikipedia French language site.



 
 

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