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Unika Sabina Maler was born in Thun in 1914. After school in Thun and La Chaux-de-Fonds, she worked first in a nursery and then as a trained children’s nurse. In 1936 Maler enrolled at the Gewerbeschule [vocational school] in Basel to study sculpture. During the Second World War, she worked in a children’s home in Habkern and set up a studio there. She regularly took part in the exhibitions held by the Verband Schweizer Malerinnen und Bildhauerinnen [Association of Swiss painters and sculptors]. In 1961 Maler moved to Champfèr in the Engadin valley, where she set up an arts and crafts shop. In 1989 she fell seriously ill and, after a stay in hospital, she went to recuperate in Krattigen, overlooking Lake Thun, where she died at the end of 1991.
Unika Sabina Maler was born in Thun in 1914. After school in Thun and La Chaux-de-Fonds, she worked first in a nursery and then as a trained children’s nurse. In 1936 Maler enrolled at the Gewerbeschule [vocational school] in Basel to study sculpture. During the Second World War, she worked in a children’s home in Habkern and set up a studio there. She regularly took part in the exhibitions held by the Verband Schweizer Malerinnen und Bildhauerinnen [Association of Swiss painters and sculptors]. In 1961 Maler moved to Champfèr in the Engadin valley, where she set up an arts and crafts shop. In 1989 she fell seriously ill and, after a stay in hospital, she went to recuperate in Krattigen, overlooking Lake Thun, where she died at the end of 1991.
