Anna Maria Waser: A Pioneering Swiss Painter Early Life and Training Born: October 16, 1678, in Zurich, Switzerland. Anna Maria Waser came from a family that valued education and the arts, fostering her early interest in painting despite societal norms. Her initial artistic training began with Johannes Sulzer in Winterthur, laying the foundation for her future development. At the age of fourteen, she moved to Bern to study under the guidance of Joseph Werner, a leading Swiss painter. Artistic Development and Career Waser’s time in Werner's workshop was unique, as she was the on…
A chart of Anna Waser's corpus mapped not by date but by subject. Spokes are what they painted; rings are when; and the threads between stars reveal the patrons and places that secretly connect them.
Each arm of the atlas gathers works by what they depict: portraits, sacred scenes, mythologies, and the scientific studies. Click a spoke to swing that cluster to the top.
Distance from the center marks time. The innermost ring is the earliest period; the outermost, the final years. Style matures as you move outward.
Coloured lines link works bound by the same patron, commission, or theme. Trace a context to watch related clusters light up across subjects.