The Nabokov Museum
47, Bolshaya Morskaya street, (m. Admiralteyskaya)
+7 (812) 315-47-13, www.nabokovmuseum.org
Hours of operation: Tue-Fri 11.00-18.00, Sat-Sun 12.00-17.00, closed Mon

September 27– October 14

Anna Sommer was born on May 13, 1968 in Aarau (german part of Switzerland). In the early 1990s, she moved to Zurich and received her artistic education there. Not only is Anna the author of comic strips published by the most interesting contemporary comics magazines (Strapazin, Lapin, Kramers Ergot …), she also creates illustrations for a number of Swiss and French newspapers (Annabelle, Vibrations, L’Imbécile, Libération, Die Zeit, Femina …) . The artist has been successfully working for more than twenty-five years in such diverse techniques as drawing, printing and paper collaging, as well as creating rag dolls.

Her drawings are minimalistic and detailed at the same time: there is nothing superfluous, but the things that give meaning and flavor to the story are always drawn with special thoroughness. In the preface to the book «Amourettes» the writer Milena Moser remarks: «Anna Sommer knows how to to distinguish principal from the secondary.”

In 1997, at the festival of comics in the city of Sierre Anna Sommer received a prize of humor (prix de l’humour), and in 2006 – the prize of the city of Zurich (Werkjahr Comics der Stadt Zürich).

www.annasommer.ch