Gertrudis Munk
Born in 1927.
Swiss · European post-war painting
Gertrudis Munk belongs to the landscape of post-war European painting. Exhibition documents link her to Switzerland and attest to movement between Barcelona and French-speaking Switzerland; her name appears in the forms Munk and Münk.
In 1968, she took part in Barcelona in the VII Salón Femenino de Arte Actual, a large international event devoted to contemporary women artists. The historical study of these salons lists her among the participants from Switzerland, placing her within the networks that contributed to the professional visibility of women artists in the late 1960s.
Her activity in French-speaking Switzerland is documented in 1972, when the Musée d’art en question(s) 1 in Lausanne announced an exhibition entitled “Line Cotty — Gertrudis Munk”. In 1975, the Galerie Arts et Lettres in Vevey presented an exhibition under the sole name Gertrudis Münk, attesting to the continuity of her presence in the regional art scene.
Reference sources classify her as a painter.
The works by Gertrudis Munk presented by Swiss Art Gallery extend this artistic journey and take their place naturally within this corpus.
