; d. June 28, 2007 in Bern, Switzerland

Switzerland

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) was a Swiss painter

Painting

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, wood engraver, draftsperson

Drawing

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 and illustrator

Illustrator

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.

Life

Trechslin studied painting in Paris

Paris

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 and at the Kunstgewerbeschule

Kunstgewerbeschule

A Kunstgewerbeschule was the old name for an advanced school of applied arts in German-speaking countries. The first such schools were opened in Kassel in 1867 and Berlin and Munich in 1868 with other German towns following. They are now merged into universities....

 in Bern. Afterwards she attended painting courses in Italy

Italy

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 and England

England

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. She gained international recognition

Recognition (sociology)

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 with her watercolors of bird

Bird

Birds are feathered, winged, bipedal, endothermic , egg-laying, vertebrate animals. Around 10,000 living species and 188 families makes them the most speciose class of tetrapod vertebrates. They inhabit ecosystems across the globe, from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Extant birds range in size from...

s and flower

Flower

A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants . The biological function of a flower is to effect reproduction, usually by providing a mechanism for the union of sperm with eggs...

s. Trechslin’s watercolor paintings are realistic rendition of plants and their armonic depiction. She is known mainly for her expert illustrations of art and botanical books on flowers, especially rose

Rose

A rose is a woody perennial of the genus Rosa, within the family Rosaceae. There are over 100 species. They form a group of erect shrubs, and climbing or trailing plants, with stems that are often armed with sharp prickles. Flowers are large and showy, in colours ranging from white through yellows...

s, camelia

Camelia

-Awards:* Anugerah Industri Muzik 1998** Best New Artist**Best Vocal Performance in an Album for "Camelia"-Personal life:She was married to Mohd Ehsan Tun Ahmad Zaidi Adruce until their divorce in 1999. She then married a prominent local developer who is a Datuk in 2010. This makes her formal...

s and orchids.

In 1983 she illustrated a bibliophyle edition of the first volume of a series on masdevallia

Masdevallia

Masdevallia, abbreviated Masd in horticultural trade, is a large genus of flowering plants of the Pleurothallidinae, a subtribe of the orchid family . There are over 500 species, grouped into several subgenera...

 orchidaceae

Orchidaceae

The Orchidaceae, commonly referred to as the orchid family, is a morphologically diverse and widespread family of monocots in the order Asparagales. Along with the Asteraceae, it is one of the two largest families of flowering plants, with between 21,950 and 26,049 currently accepted species,...

, the text being written by taxonomist Dr. Carlyle August Luer, co-founder of the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens

Marie Selby Botanical Gardens

The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens are extensive botanical gardens dedicated to research and collections of epiphytes, especially orchids and bromeliads, and their canopy ecosystems...

 in Sarasota, Florida

Florida

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 and senior curator

Curator

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 at the Missouri Botanical Garden

Missouri Botanical Garden

The Missouri Botanical Garden is a botanical garden located in St. Louis, Missouri. It is also known informally as Shaw's Garden for founder Henry Shaw, a botanist and philanthropist.-History:...

 in St. Louis  The next volumes of the series were published by the American Orchid Society with illustrations by Stig Dalström of Florida

Florida

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. She also illustrated several books on roses written by Stelvio Coggiatti expert of the scientific commission of the Enciclopedia Agraria Italiana and vicepresident of the Associazione Italiana della Rosa .

She had personal exhibitions of the works in Basel

Basel

Basel or Basle In the national languages of Switzerland the city is also known as Bâle , Basilea and Basilea is Switzerland's third most populous city with about 166,000 inhabitants. Located where the Swiss, French and German borders meet, Basel also has suburbs in France and Germany...

, Bern, Klosters

Klosters

Klosters-Serneus is a municipality in the district of Prättigau/Davos in the Swiss canton of Graubünden.Its well-known ski resort lies from Zurich, the nearest international airport. Transfer time is about 1.5 hours. Klosters is from Davos...

, Paris

Paris

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, Rome

Rome

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, Florence

Florence

Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....

, Perugia

Perugia

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 and Malta

Malta

Malta , officially known as the Republic of Malta , is a Southern European country consisting of an archipelago situated in the centre of the Mediterranean, south of Sicily, east of Tunisia and north of Libya, with Gibraltar to the west and Alexandria to the east.Malta covers just over in...

. She also presented to Queen Fabiola of Belgium

Queen Fabiola of Belgium

Queen Fabiola of Belgium is the widow of King Baudouin of Belgium. She was Queen consort of the Belgians for 33 years...

 her watercolor painting of the “Pascali rose”, a Belgian cultivar

Cultivar

A cultivar'Cultivar has two meanings as explained under Formal definition. When used in reference to a taxon, the word does not apply to an individual plant but to all those plants sharing the unique characteristics that define the cultivar. is a plant or group of plants selected for desirable...

 which had received several international prizes. Thereafter, the presents her painting of the “Queen Elizabeth Rose” to the Queen Mother Elizabeth

Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon

Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon was the queen consort of King George VI from 1936 until her husband's death in 1952, after which she was known as Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, to avoid confusion with her daughter, Queen Elizabeth II...

 of the United Kingdom.

In 2000, at the request of abbot Philippe Chèvre of Zürich

Zürich

Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is located in central Switzerland at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich...

 she illustrated a bible

Bible

The Bible refers to any one of the collections of the primary religious texts of Judaism and Christianity. There is no common version of the Bible, as the individual books , their contents and their order vary among denominations...

 in the manner of illuminated manuscripts 

In 1963, during the International Congress of Roses, the major of Nashville, Tennessee

Tennessee

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, offered her the key to the city

Freedom of the City

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. In 1987 she received the Paul Haupt Prize  for the book illustrationss

Series of postal stamps

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 based on Anne Marie Trechslin’s watercolor paintings of flower

Flower

A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants . The biological function of a flower is to effect reproduction, usually by providing a mechanism for the union of sperm with eggs...

s, fruit

Fruit

In broad terms, a fruit is a structure of a plant that contains its seeds.The term has different meanings dependent on context. In non-technical usage, such as food preparation, fruit normally means the fleshy seed-associated structures of certain plants that are sweet and edible in the raw state,...

s and birds were issued by the Republic San Marino and by Switzerland

Switzerland

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. For the "Year of the Rose 2002", the "Pro Juventute

Pro Juventute

Pro Juventute is a charitable foundation in Switzerland established in 1912. It is dedicated to supporting the rights and needs of Swiss children and youth....

" Foundation issued a series of semi-postal  stamps

Postage stamp

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 also presenting Trechslin’s paintings of the “Christmas Rose” and the rose

Rose

A rose is a woody perennial of the genus Rosa, within the family Rosaceae. There are over 100 species. They form a group of erect shrubs, and climbing or trailing plants, with stems that are often armed with sharp prickles. Flowers are large and showy, in colours ranging from white through yellows...

 cultivars "Ingrid Bergman", "Charmian", "Belle Vaudoise" und "Frühlingsgold". Rubbing the stamps with the finger makes them exude a rose scent, while the Christmas Rose stamp exudes a scent of fir

Fir

Firs are a genus of 48–55 species of evergreen conifers in the family Pinaceae. They are found through much of North and Central America, Europe, Asia, and North Africa, occurring in mountains over most of the range...

, cinnamon

Cinnamon

Cinnamon is a spice obtained from the inner bark of several trees from the genus Cinnamomum that is used in both sweet and savoury foods...

 and carnation

Carnation

Dianthus caryophyllus is a species of Dianthus. It is probably native to the Mediterranean region but its exact range is unknown due to extensive cultivation for the last 2,000 years. It is the wild ancestor of the garden carnation.It is a herbaceous perennial plant growing to 80 cm tall...

. Trechslin was awarded the "Cavallino d'Oro Prize" in Venice

Venice

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 for her postage stamps.
.

Ther artist also worked for the Carnegie Museum of Natural History

Carnegie Museum of Natural History

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 of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

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 and for the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle

Muséum national d'histoire naturelle

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 of Paris

Paris

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.

Rosarian Jean-Marie Meilland named a rose

Rose

A rose is a woody perennial of the genus Rosa, within the family Rosaceae. There are over 100 species. They form a group of erect shrubs, and climbing or trailing plants, with stems that are often armed with sharp prickles. Flowers are large and showy, in colours ranging from white through yellows...

 cultivar

Cultivar

A cultivar'Cultivar has two meanings as explained under Formal definition. When used in reference to a taxon, the word does not apply to an individual plant but to all those plants sharing the unique characteristics that define the cultivar. is a plant or group of plants selected for desirable...

in her honor.

Books illustrated by Anne Marie Trechslin

• Eric Bois: Rosen Bd. 1. Silva Verlag, Zürich 1961.
• Eric Bois: Zwiebel- und Knollenpflanzen, Wunderwelt der Gartenblumen Bd. I. Silva Verlag, Zürich 1964.
• André Leroy: Rosen Bd. 2. Die schönsten Rosen der Welt und ihre Kultur. Silva Verlag, Zürich 1967.
• Karlheinz Jacobi: Winterharte Blütenstauden Wunderwelt der Gartenblumen Bd. 2. Silva Verlag, Zürich 1970.
• Sträucher und Bäume Wunderwelt der Gartenblumen Bd. 3. Silva Verlag, Zürich 1972.
• Old garden roses. Editions Le Moulin, 1975.
• Gérald Van der Kemp & Stelvio Coggiatti: Blumen Und Vogel: Die Malerin Anne Marie Trechslin. Amriswiler Bucherei, Zürich 1979.
• Carlyle A. Luer: Thesaurus Masdevalliarum: a monograph of the Genus Masdevallia, Part 1. Verlag Helga Koniger, Zürich 1983.
• Stelvio Coggiatti: Alte Rosen - neue Rosen. Silva Verlag, Zürich 1985.
• Stelvio Coggiatti: The Language of Roses. Gallery Books, New York 1986.
• Stelvio Coggiatti: Berühmte Rosen und ihre Geschichte. Amber Grünwald Verlag, 1987, ISBN 978-3-922954-06-4.