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Bossi, Erma, 1875-1952

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Personal name headingBossi, Erma, 1875-1952
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Variant(s)Bossi, Erminia, 1875-1952
Bosich, Erminia, 1875-1952
Barrera Bossi, Erma, 1875-1952
Birth date18750609
Death date19520414
Place of birthPula (Croatia)
Place of deathCesano Boscone (Italy)
Field of activityPainting
Profession or occupationPainters
Found inDunford, P. A biog. dict. of women artists...1990: p. 41 (Bossi, Erma, alt. Erminia or Barrera Bossi; expressionist painter of figures, still lifes and landscapes, sometimes signed works Barrera Bossi; belonged to Der Blaue Reiter; b. Pola 1882/5, d. 1952)
A.M. Comanducci dizionario illustrato dei pittori... p. 405 (Bossi, Erma; b. Pola, Italy 1885)
Erma Bossi, eine Spurensuche, c2013: p. 8-9 (Bosich, Erminia; b. Pola, June 9, 1875) p. 24 (ca. 1904 began using an "Italianized" version of her surname, Bossi) p. 25-26 (though never married, the artist added the surname of her paramour, Carlo Barrera (1865-1938), to her own, ca. 1911; after 1920 returned to using only Bossi) p. 30 (d. Cesano Boscone, Apr. 14, 1952)
Dictionary of women artists, c1985 (Bossi (Barrera-Bossi), Erma (Erminia); b. Pola (Pula), Yugoslavia, 1882/1895; d. Paris, 1952/1960; painter; associate and friend of Gabrielle Münter and Kandinsky)
German Wikipedia, Dec. 2, 2013 (Erma Bossi, b. Erminia Bosich, Pola, June 9, 1875; d. Cesano Boscone, Apr. 14, 1952; ca. 1911 added the surname of Italian tenor, Carlo Barrera, "the love of her life" to her own, Erma Barrera Bossi)