Anne Loch

In 2013, Anne Loch was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer. She returned to Switzerland, and from autumn was in a hospital in Bergell. Debilitated by her illness, she was no longer able to paint large canvasses. Instead, she photographed flowers that friends bring her to the hospital and traced them on the photographs with a white or black marker pen. These final artworks are arguably the most intimate and personal in the artist’s oeuvre. Their fragility testifies to her weakened physical state and at the same time to her enduring drive to create art until her final breath. Back in the mid-1990s, Loch wrote in her diary: “[…] art is what I do, it’s my home, it’s my everything, it’s my life.”