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The Bosnian painter and illustrator Mersad Berber (1940–2012) trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana, completing his painting degree in 1963 and a printmaking specialisation in 1965. He subsequently taught drawing and printmaking at the Sarajevo academy from 1978 to 1982. This engagement with painting and graphic art runs through his work. Portraits of women and horses, sometimes accompanied by peasant riders, are recurring subjects, while some woodcuts transform female faces into more abstract forms. Oil painting, screenprinting and offset broadened his expressive means and carried related imagery across different materials. An exhibition of recent work at Galerie Fischer in 2001–2002 also records the presentation of his art in Switzerland.
This profile brings together identity references for Mersad Berber and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
Genève Enchères · Dobiaschofsky · Piguet · Zofingen · Schuler
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Oil on panel
Femme dans un paysage,
huile sur panneau
Catalogue period : 2025-09-11 — 2025-09-24
Published result : 2400 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 800–1200
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Mixed media on canvas
Frauenfigur
Mischtechnik auf Leinwand
Catalogue period : 2023-11-25
Published result : 1600 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 1000
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Mischtechnik und Collage auf Karton
Knabe mit Turban
Mischtechnik und Collage auf Karton
Catalogue period : 2018-12-10
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
Estimate : CHF 600–800
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Graphite on paper
Etude d'homme
mine de plomb sur papier
Catalogue period : 2018-09-18
Published result : 1600 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 500–800
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Oil on canvas
Jeune femme à la coiffe
huile sur toile
Catalogue period : 2018-09-18
Published result : 2600 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 1000–1500
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Midsummer night′s dream.
Mischtechnik auf Papier
Date to be documented
Published result : 1200 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 1400
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