# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hedwig-scherrer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:30:34.361Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hedwig-scherrer"
name: "Hedwig Scherrer"
slug: "hedwig-scherrer"
description: "Hedwig Scherrer was a Swiss painter, illustrator, and caricaturist, best remembered for her graphic art for the Wandervogel, and her miniature, Art Nouveau, and expressionist style paintings. One of the first academically trained female artists in Switzerland, studying under Emil Nolde, her works have been exhibited at the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen and various public installations in St. Gallen."
tagline: "Swiss philanthropist (1878-1940)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hedwig_Scherrer_Selbstportrait.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Switzerland"
  isoCode: "CH"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1878-03-11"
deathDate: "1940-05-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           34.79
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.802304
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedwig_Scherrer"
    title: "Hedwig Scherrer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedwig_Scherrer"
    title: "Hedwig Scherrer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedwig_Scherrer"
    title: "Hedwig Scherrer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedwig_Scherrer"
    title: "Hedwig Scherrer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedwig_Scherrer"
    title: "Hedwig Scherrer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1593404"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump