{{short description|Canadian painter (born 1943)}} {{Infobox artist | name = Marion Wagschal | image = <!-- use the image's pagename; do not include the "File:" or "Image:" prefix, and do not use brackets--> | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_date ={{birth year and age|1943}} | birth_place = Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | death_place = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = <!-- {{Coord|LAT|LONG|type:landmark|display=inline}} --> | education = {{ubl|McGill University|Concordia University}} | known_for = | notable_works = | style = | website = <!-- {{URL|Example.com}} --> }} '''Marion Wagschal''' {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|RCA|size=100%}} (born 1943) is a feminist Canadian painter known for figurative work which sometimes refers to the Holocaust and to her own personal history.<ref name="MNBAQ " /><ref name="macDonald " >A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, volumes 1-8 by Colin S. MacDonald, and volume 9 (online only), by Anne Newlands and Judith Parker National Gallery of Canada / Musée des beaux-arts du Canada</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Marion Wagschal on her figurative art |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZxKufwiRLc |website=www.youtube.com |publisher=You Tube |access-date=2021-07-09}}</ref>
==Career== She was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago in 1943; her German parents emigrated there from Cologne, Germany in 1939.<ref>{{cite web |title=Marion Wagschal, 2020 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ACxn2e5R74 |website=www.youtube.com |publisher=You Tube |access-date=2021-07-09}}</ref> In 1951, Wagschal emigrated to Canada with her family and settled in Montreal.<ref name="macDonald " /> In 1962, she received a Teaching Diploma from MacDonald College, McGill University, and in 1975, a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Sir George Williams University (later Concordia University), Montreal.<ref name="macDonald " /><ref name="concordia " >{{cite web |title=Marion Wagschal |url=http://art-history.concordia.ca/eea/artists/wagschal.html |website=art-history.concordia.ca |publisher=Concordia |access-date=2021-07-09}}</ref> She taught painting and drawing at Concordia University for 37 years, and developed an innovative seminar/workshop entitled ''Women and Painting''.<ref name="concordia " /><ref name="joliette " >{{cite web |title=Marion Wagschal |url=https://WWW.MUSEEJOLIETTE.ORG/EN/EXPOSITIONS/MARION-WAGSCHAL/ |website=WWW.MUSEEJOLIETTE.ORG/EN/EXPOSITIONS/MARION-WAGSCHAL |publisher=Musée d'art de Joliette |access-date=2021-07-09}}</ref>
Her images are said to "bleed nostalgia and emotion" and concern the ravages of time on human flesh.<ref>{{cite web |title=A Closer Look at the Confessional Works of Marion Wagschal |url=https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/8281/a-closer-look-at-the-confessional-works-of-marion-wagschal |website=www.anothermag.com |publisher=AnOther magazine |access-date=2021-07-09}}</ref> A travelling retrospective titled ''Marion Wagschal: Portraits, Memories Fables'' was organized by Sarah Fillmore for the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia in 2014 and was shown at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in 2015.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Everett-Green, Globe and Mail, 2015|first1=Robert| url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/art-and-architecture/marion-wagschal-retrospective-shows-paintings-saturated-with-time/article24697154/ |title = Marion Wagschal retrospective shows paintings saturated with time}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.lapresse.ca/arts/arts-visuels/201504/13/01-4860568-retrospective-marion-wagschal-allegories-de-la-vulnerabilite.php |title = Rétrospective Marion Wagschal: Allégories de la vulnérabilité|date = 13 April 2015}}</ref> In 2017, the Musée d'art de Joliette held an exhibition of her work. Among the public galleries which have her paintings are the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec,<ref name="MNBAQ " >{{Cite web | url=https://collections.mnbaq.org/fr/artiste/600003709|title= Collection:Marion Wagschal }}</ref> the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts,<ref name="MMFA " >{{Cite web | url=https://www.mbam.qc.ca/en/works/56285/ |title = MMFA Collection: Marion Wagschal, Artists and Children}}</ref> the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Confederation Centre of the Arts (Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island), the Robert McLaughlin Gallery (Oshawa, Ontario) and Plattsburgh State Art Museum (Plattsburgh, New York).<ref name="joliette " />
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