Swiss paintings — A168-3: Gemälde
Jakob Emanuel Handmann was a Swiss painter specialised in portrait painting. He was a contemporary of the Swiss painters Anton Graff, Jean Preudhomme, Angelica Kauffman, Johann Jakob Schalch, Johann Caspar Füssli and his son Johann Heinrich Füssli.
François-Louis David Bocion was a Swiss impressionist painter. He was originally interested in historical subjects, then became a landscape painter and marine painter. He painted some of his famous paintings in Venice, and Bocion gained international fame primarily as the "painter of Lake Geneva.
Rudolf Koller was a Swiss painter. He is associated with a realist and classicist style, and also with the essentially romantic Düsseldorf school of painting. Koller's style is similar to that of the realist painters Gustave Courbet and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. Considered Switzerland's finest animal painter, Koller is rated alongside George Stubbs, Rosa Bonheur and Théodore Géricault. While his reputation was based on his paintings of animals, he was a sensitive and innovative artist whose well-composed works in the "plein air" tradition, including Swiss mountain landscapes, are just as finely executed.
He has been described as "the painter of the Swiss national animal", because of his paintings of cows in Swiss landscapes. He is considered, along with Frank Buchser and Gustave Eugène Castan, to be one of the most important Swiss painters of the 19th century. The Gotthardpost, or The St Gotthard Mailcoach, is one of his most famous paintings. It depicts a mail coach, drawn by white horses, speeding along a mountain road.
Édouard John Ravel, also known as Jean-Édouard Ravel or Edouard Ravel, was a Swiss painter, printmaker, and illustrator. Because of his many talents, he painted genre scenes, portraits, animals, landscapes, historical scenes, and allegories in a variety of techniques.
Albert Gos was a Swiss painter-painter, musician, and writer. A great admirer of high mountains, he called himself a "mountain painter. He mainly painted mountain views and landscapes. His favorite view is the Matterhorn in the Pennine Alps.
Traugott Senn was a Swiss landscape painter, considered an artistic pioneer of the Bernese Zeeland and an innovator of the French landscape of the time. In his younger years he belonged to the Bernese School. Landscapes of Bernese Zeeland constitute the greater part of Senn's paintings.
Helen Dahm was a Swiss artist and a follower of the expressionist movement.
Helen Dahm only received recognition late in life. In 1967, at the age of 89, she had her first major retrospective exhibition in Switzerland.
Else Strantz was her life partner for twenty years, and it was through Strantz that Dahm met the Blue Rider group of artists, who were very influential to Dahm.
Plinio Colombi was a Swiss painter and graphic artist. For his paintings he often chose landscape motifs of the Lake Thun region and also painted still lifes. His works include prints, paintings, etchings, aquatints, lithographs, woodcuts, drawings, and posters.
Ernest Pizzotti was a Swiss painter-painter and graphic artist. His work was mainly influenced by the 1920s and 30s, when the key innovations of the early twentieth century continued to develop and evolve. Surrealism became the prevailing expressive fashion of the 1920s.
Max Gubler was a Swiss artist.
He experimented with various contemporary styles, until developing his own personal vivid style of landscape painting on Lipari. Later he turned to abstraction, but continued to use bright colours. In 1956 he did a series of pastel illustrations for Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea. In his late works, darker colours predominate.
His work was shown in many galleries.
Carlotta Stocker is a Swiss expressionist artist, interior designer and illustrator. She is especially known for her large-scale interpretations of the studio table, in which she worked with strong colors. She developed an expressive, emotional and colorful style for her works. Stocker also created large-format murals in public buildings in Zurich.
Carlotta Stocker is a Swiss expressionist artist, interior designer and illustrator. She is especially known for her large-scale interpretations of the studio table, in which she worked with strong colors. She developed an expressive, emotional and colorful style for her works. Stocker also created large-format murals in public buildings in Zurich.
Constantin Polastri was a Swiss painter. He lived in Hombrechtikon (Switzerland) and Sanremo, Italy. His work includes oil paintings on canvas and wood, watercolours, drawings, lithographs and decorative works on furniture and walls. Influenced by Post-Impressionism and Fauvism, he painted gardens, landscapes, still lifes and nudes.
Irene Zurkinden is a Swiss painter. She gained a reputation as a sought-after portrait painter and often painted picturesque cityscapes in a style clearly based on Impressionism.
Irene Zurkinden also created costumes and sets for the City Theater of Basel as well as illustrated books.
Walter Arnold Steffen was a Swiss painter and printmaker. In spite of repeated treatment in psychiatric clinics, he left many works. Walter Arnold Steffen's main artistic focus was on the human face, sometimes reduced to almost abstract forms, sometimes mask-like, sometimes strongly expressionistic. Steffen painted landscapes, still lifes, self-portraits, heads and figures, as well as paintings on religious themes.
Alex Sadkowsky is a Swiss artist, painter, illustrator, graphic artist, photographer, performer, and writer. This multimedia artist has also created many portraits, among other things. According to Sadkowsky, his surrealist expressionism or expressive surrealism leads to "undepressionism.
Martin Ziegelmüller is a Swiss painter, draughtsman, printmaker, and printmaker. Ziegelmüller's current oeuvre includes thousands of works, mainly oil paintings, but also watercolors and prints. A passion for color and light moods and a close relationship to nature underlie his work. The artist's favorite subjects are water landscapes, urban and industrial panoramas.
Wilfrid Moser was a Swiss abstractionist painter, sculptor, and printmaker. A multifaceted artist, he worked in a variety of techniques and created entire cycles of works on subway stations, bridges, city streets, houses and shops. Colorful woodcuts, sculpture, stained glass and even cave landscapes are all the legacy of a talented artist.