Margherita Osswald-Toppi
Born in 1897.
Died in 1971.
Margherita Osswald-Toppi (1897–1971) is documented as an artist working in painting and sculpture; she is listed in the SIKART database under identifier 4026218.
In 1913, at the age of sixteen, she created Die vier Jahreszeiten (The Four Seasons), a series of nineteen bas-reliefs composed of small human figures, installed on three sides of the ground floor of the atrium in the main building of the University of Zurich.
Her documented production encompasses a range of subjects—still lifes, portraits, human figures and landscapes—which she addressed in both painting and sculpture.
The same notice mentions her as the wife of the sculptor Paul Osswald, in connection with the description of the bas-reliefs.
The information presented here is based on the accessible documented sources (the SIKART reference and the descriptive notice cited for the reliefs), which make it possible to situate key aspects of her œuvre without claiming to be exhaustive.
