Maria Herrmann-Kaufmann was born and raised in
Escholzmatt in
Entlebuch. Her second home was
Emmenbrücke, a suburb of
Lucerne. She created the bulk of her works in her studio in the Quartier Sprengi. Herrmann-Kaufmann received her training at the
School of Design, Lucerne and the
Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris. She studied with Ronald Kocher, Otto Kuhn, Alfred Sidler, Fred Stauffer (
Bern) and Adolf Weber (
Menziken). After 1956, she exhibited her works in numerous individual and group exhibitions in Bern, Lucerne, Emmenbrücke, Zug, Buchrain, Kriens, Flühli-Sörenberg, Schüpfheim, Porrentruy, Mendrisio, Escholzmatt and Osnabrück. Her artworks are signed with the initials MHK. A large part of her works is in private or public ownership. The artistic estate is managed by a foundation. She died on 16 January 2008 at the ALP ancillary center in Emmenbrücke. ==References==