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Category: Swiss art
Paul Klee: Feier und Untergang
“The present painting is part of a group of rhythmic, wooded landscapes that Klee made in 1920, the year after he first began working in oil….The dominant red and brown tonalities reflect the colors of the fall foliage, while the title of the painting–Feier und Untergang (Celebration and Decline)–evokes the bounty of the harvest followed…
Clara Porges: Bergell Mountains
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Celine Dion and Andrea Bocelli: The Prayer
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Allan Clayton: Ingenious Bee, from Berenice, HWV 38 (Handel)
Vedi l’ape ch’ingegnosa Su quei for vola e riposa Dove più trova d’umor. Ne si arresta ancor che bello Sembri a lei di questo e quello Solo e semplice il color. Consider the bee, who cunningly flits among the flowers and rests wherever it suits him best. He never stops on account of how beautiful…
Caroline Boissier-Butini: La Suisse, Concerto n. 6
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Johannes Itten: Group of Houses in Spring (1916)
“The Swiss Expressionist painter Johannes Itten..set up his own school in Vienna and in 1919 began to perform an important educational role at Walter Gropius’s Bauhaus. The present work on canvas, entitled Group of Houses in Spring, depicts a number of buildings on Gansheide, a wooded hill near Stuttgart where the painter had rented a…
Jean-Étienne Liotard: Portrait of a Young Woman (c.1760)
“For its beauty, vivacity, freshness and lightness of palette,” Liotard wrote, “pastel painting is more beautiful than any other kind of painting.” Liotard is known for pressing pastel quite forcefully onto the paper to create extra brilliance in order to exaggerate these qualities. This peculiar technique and desire for luminosity is what set him apart…
Paul Klee: The Lamb (1920)
“The lamb is walking through the colourful stripy cosmos as if it were a lost child. The cross above its head evokes God’s Lamb, which traditionally symbolises Christ’s sacrificial death. However, the religious content in Klee’s work is controversial as the painter did not express a particular religious standpoint. The comparison of the artist and…
Paul Klee: Tropical Blossom
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Fuchs: Clarinet Chamber Music
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Albert Anker: Fleissig Appliquee (1886)
Who Is Albert Anker? Albrecht Samuel Anker (April 1, 1831 – July 16, 1910) was a Swiss painter and illustrator who has been called the “national painter” of Switzerland because of his popular depictions of 19th-century Swiss village life.[1][2] Click For Enlarged Details Slideshow best viewed At Sunnyside Read More Albert Anker at Wikiwand See…
“Bergell Mountains” and Mignarda’s “Bist du bei mir”
Bist du bei mir (Are You With Me?) Text and Translation Bist du bei mir, geh ich mit Freuden zum Sterben und zu meiner Ruh. Ach, wie vergnügt wär so mein Ende, es drückten deine schönen Hände mir die getreuen Augen zu. If you are with me, then I will go gladly to death and…
Paul Klee: Tropical Blossom (1920)
Color possesses me. I don’t have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Colour and I are one. I am a painter. Paul Klee: Quote (Tunisia, 16 April 1914), # 926, in: The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918, transl. Pierre B. Schneider, R.Y….
Augusto Giacometti: Orchids on Blue Ground (1938)
Master of Color Augusto Giacometti (1877 –1947) was a Swiss artist from Stampa, Graubünden, known predominantly as a painter in the Art Nouveau and Symbolism movements, as well as for his work in stained glass. He was a proponent of murals and a designer of popular posters. He is cousin of Giovanni Giacometti – father…
Augusto Giacometti: Flower Pot With Cattleya (1923)
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Augusto Giacometti: Poppy on Gray Background, (1932)
Pioneer of Abstraction Augusto Giacometti (1877 –1947) was a Swiss artist from Stampa, Graubünden, known predominantly as a painter in the Art Nouveau and Symbolism movements, as well as for his work in stained glass. He was a proponent of murals and a designer of popular posters. He is cousin of Giovanni Giacometti – father…
Rudolf Koller: Outing on the Forest’s Edge
Who Is Rudolf Koller? Rudolf Koller (Swiss, 1828-1905) is considered one of Switzerland’s finest animal painters associated with a realist and classicist style, and also with Düsseldorf school of painting.[2] Koller’s style is similar to that of the realist painters Gustave Courbet and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. Click for Enlarged Image Slideshow best viewed At Sunnyside …
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