Anna Boch

Anna Boch
Portrait photo of Anna Boch (before 1900)
Born10 February 1848
Saint-Vaast, Belgium
Died25 February 1936(1936-02-25) (aged 88)
Ixelles, Belgium
Known forPainting
MovementPointillism, Impressionism

Anna-Rosalie Boch (10 February 1848 – 25 February 1936), known as Anna, was a Belgian painter, art collector, and the only female member of the artistic group, Les XX.[1] Born in Saint-Vaast, Hainaut. Anna Boch died in Ixelles in 1936 and is interred there in the Ixelles Cemetery, Brussels, Belgium.[citation needed]

Boch's family was involved in art in different ways. Her father, Frédéric Victor Boch, was a successful manufacturer of porcelain; her brother, Eugène Boch, was a painter, and her cousin, Octave Maus, was an art critic.[1][2]

  1. ^ a b Block, Jane; Lee, Ellen Wardwell; Cultuurcentrum, I. N. G.; Art, Indianapolis Museum of (25 March 2014). The Neo-Impressionist Portrait, 1886?1904. Yale University Press. p. 189. ISBN 978-0-300-19084-7.
  2. ^ "Discover painter, art collector Anna Boch". rkd.nl. Retrieved 6 February 2023.