The untamed Hélène (Swiss Press Text 2019, by Naomi Jones) - Swiss Press Award
Der Bund
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2019
Naomi Jones
While visiting an exhibition, I came across the story of Hélène von Stürler. I wanted to know more about the woman in the magnificent oil painting and eventually found key documents about her life in archives in Zurich and Munich. This allowed me to describe, in exemplary fashion, how a wealthy woman lived at the turn of the century and resisted the prevailing conventions.
