Alice Boner

Her early works focused on drawings, sculptures, portrait, full body studies, landscapes and nature observations.

Her sketches were spontaneous, a series of observations, that are usually performed only with a few quick strokes, and are focused on the essential characteristics of the body.

[citation needed] The collection of the Rietberg Museum houses a variety of sculptures and statues of Alice Boner from her youth.

She was immediately intrigued by the elegant dance movements of Shankar, and with his consent made some sketches on paper and with clay.

She gave up sculpting, saying that it was "too slow a process to catch up with the wealth of aspects India offered to the observing eye".

[9] Boner also suggested that oblique parallel lines, based on one of the either 6, 8, or 12 dividing diameters, also serve as orientation for the sculptures.

Aside from the time and space divisions, Boner also describes the principle of integration where the composition of the sculpture determines the meaning.

[10] In 1957, Boner met Pandit Sadashiva Rath Sharma who introduced her to a palm-leaf manuscript called Shilpa Prakasha (IAST: Śilpa Prakāśa).

[7] The Shilpa Prakasha essentially proved to Boner that her notion of the sculptures being carved around these strict geometrical concepts was in fact accurate, and not a mere side effect.

The Shilpa Prakasha itself was an architects manual on the rules of constructing a Hindu temple, and as such included references to many of the principles Boner had studied previously.

[12][13] 1969, an honorary doctor's degree was conferred on Alice Boner by the University of Zurich, based on her academic contributions and publications.