27 Swiss women painters

Anna Maria Barbara Abesch was a Swiss reverse glass painter and the daughter of Johann Peter Abesch.

Alice Bailly was a Swiss avant-garde painter, known for her interpretations on cubism, fauvism, futurism, her wool paintings, and her participation in the Dada movement. In 1906, Bailly had settled in Paris where she befriended Juan Gris, Francis Picabia, and Marie Laurencin, avant-garde modernist painters who influenced her works and her later life.

Alice Boner was a Swiss painter and sculptor, art historian, and an Indologist.

Louise Catherine Breslau was a German-born Swiss painter, who learned drawing to pass the time while bedridden with chronic asthma. She studied art at the Académie Julian in Paris, and exhibited at the salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, where she became a respected colleague of noted figures such as Edgar Degas and Anatole France.

Martha Burkhardt was a Swiss painter and photographer. Born in the city of Aarau, she spent her childhood in Rapperswil and as an adult made Rapperswil again her home.

Miriam Cahn is a Swiss painter.

Helga von Cramm (1840–1919) was a German and Swiss painter, illustrator and graphic artist.

Helen Dahm was a Swiss artist and a follower of the expressionist movement.

Janika Fabrikant, is a French-Swiss painter of urban and industrial landscapes, who was born in Paris, France. She lives in Zürich, where her painting is prominent because of its special characteristic of cognitive dissonance. Her style, based on Surrealism, expresses a marked discrepancy between visual reality and terror.

Maria Gugelberg von Moos (1836–1918) was a Swiss botanist and floral artist. Growing up amidst the natural beauty surrounding Salenegg Castle, she developed an early interest in natural history, and later botany. She studied botany extensively in middle age, systematically collecting and studying plants.

Alis Guggenheim was a Swiss painter, and sculptor born in Lengnau and who died in Zürich. Daughter of Moses Guggenheim and Fanny Guggenheim-Weil. Sister of Hilda, Bona, Martha, Hermann, Jacques and Daniel. She was the mother of Ruth Guggenheim Heussler and the grandmother of Olivia Heussler and Delia Heussler,

Maria Herrmann-Kaufmann was a Swiss painter.

Maria Anna Angelika Kauffmann, usually known in English as Angelica Kauffman, was a Swiss Neoclassical painter who had a successful career in London and Rome. Remembered primarily as a history painter, Kauffmann was a skilled portraitist, landscape and decoration painter. She was, along with Mary Moser, one of the two female founding members of the Royal Academy in London in 1768.

Louise-Émilie Leleux-Giraud was a Swiss painter active in France.

Verena Loewensberg was a Swiss painter and graphic designer.

Brigitta Malche is a Swiss-Austrian artist with municipal citizenship in Zurich. In addition to paintings on canvas, her work also includes light and sound installations and large scale Public art projects.

Pierrette Micheloud was a Swiss writer and painter.

Ottilie Wilhelmine Roederstein was a German-Swiss painter. She was the long-time companion of Elisabeth Winterhalter, one of the first female doctors in Germany.

Jeanne-Pernette Schenker-Massot, often referred to simply as Pernette Massot was a Swiss miniaturist, pastellist, and engraver.

Sonja Sekula was a Swiss-born artist linked with the abstract expressionist movement, notable for her activity as an "out" lesbian in the New York art world during the 1940s and early 1950s.

Sophie Henriette Gertrud Taeuber-Arp was a Swiss artist, painter, sculptor, textile designer, furniture and interior designer, architect and dancer.

Anna Maria Tobler (1882–1935) was a Swiss painter.

Denise Voïta (1928–2008) was a Swiss painter, designer, lithographer, and tapestry designer.

Lisa Wenger was a Swiss painter and author of children's books. During the 1930s she was one of the best known and most widely read authors in the country.

Marianne von Werefkin, born Marianna Wladimirowna Werewkina, was a Russian-German-Swiss Expressionist painter.

Bertha Züricher or Berthe Zuricker was a Swiss author, painter and engraver.

Irène Zurkinden was a Swiss painter.