Energy Is Never Lost: A Portrait of Swiss Artist Margrit Fischer-Hotz

Abstract

Margrit Fischer-Hotz, born in 1938, is a Swiss artist based in Zug. She began painting using mixed media in the second part of her life and developed an intense and inspired artistic career after the death of her husband, Walter E. Fischer, a renowned Swiss nuclear and particle physics scientist who was instrumental in founding the Paul Scherrer Institute in the late 1980s. The artistic work of Fischer-Hotz is largely inspired by research in physics, biology, space research, and the great scientists of the past century and of our time. She testifies here about her journey and her approach.