Biography of Heidy Isler
Heidy Isler is born on March 16th 1909 in Wohlen/AG (Switzerland). From 1927 to 1931 she studies at the Art Academy of Florence under Felice Carena where she meets Luigi Montanarini. They marry in 1933 and have four children: Silvia, Roberto, Marco and Luca.
From now on she dedicates all her time to her family setting aside a career of her own as an art painter. Only when also the youngest of her four children leaves Rome in 1959 and moves to Switzerland for his further education, just as his three older brothers and sister before him, she finds the necessary time and calm to consecrate herself again to her beloved painting.
In the years between 1960 and 1980, which can certainly be called her most intensive creative period, she creates oil and watercolour paintings of an astonishing freshness which are evidence of an eminent mastery and an acute sense for the beauty of nature. Now, possibilities of exhibiting her works emerge, especially in Switzerland. The most important one being the big exhibition in Wohlen in 1964, dedicated to her and her husband Luigi Montanarini. As she becomes older, life in a metropolis like Rome gets more and more arduous for Heidy Isler – who in her innermost had always remained a Swiss. She gets tired and feels lonely.
In 1986 her children finally take her back to her home town where she feels more secure and at home again.
Heidy Isler dies on February 24th 1994 in her parents’ house in Wohlen where she was also born.