After the First World War, New Objectivity appeared as a counter-movement to wild Expressionism. As the name suggests, this is a very sober style. Things are depicted in a very ‹matter-of-fact› way. N...
Albert Müller from Basel is considered one of the main representatives of Swiss Expressionism. He received his first artistic training in a glass-painting studio and at the trade school in his native ...
Giovanni Giacometti, the father of sculptor Alberto Giacometti was, together with Cuno Amiet, one of the first Swiss artists to take up the modern French trends of Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, a...
Cuno Amiet was one of the great innovators of Swiss painting around 1900. Influenced by contemporary French art, he broke away from the tradition of the nineteenth century and overcame the dominant in...
«What I love most is the sun, after the sun spring, then the springs that gush crystal clear from the rocks in the Alps, that trickle in the veins of Earth and flow like the blood in our own veins.» T...
This Italian girl in the traditional costume of Procida marks the beginning of Louis-Léopold Robert's rise and success as a painter – a success that soon spread from France and Italy to Prussia and Ru...
Wilhelm Leibl had had enough of Munich and the often disparaging criticism of his work by the local art scene, so in 1873 he decided to retreat to the countryside. his change of location also changed ...
The German artist Anselm Feuerbach was familiar with the classical texts and he also attended a performance of Christoph Willibald Gluck’s opera Iphigénie en Tauride in Munich. Above all, however, it ...
Arnold Böcklin’s Pan in the Reeds tells a story of unfulfilled love. In his Metamorphoses, the Roman poet Ovid describes how Pan fell in love with the nymph Syrinx. However, she was repelled by his ad...
Geneva artist Jacques-Laurent Agasse specialised in depicting animals from a young age. Since he partly grew up in the countryside, he got to observe horses and dogs in their natural environment....
After his apprenticeship under Pieter Lastman, Rembrandt returned to his native Leiden in 1625 and began to intensively occupy himself with physiognomic representations. The Foot Operation is a wonder...
There is a popular anecdote about Albert Anker’s nursery school. It is said that the deaconess portrayed here was embarrassed about her dirty bonnet and asked the artist not to paint it. She quickly f...
Caspar David Friedrich spent most of his life in Dresden. However, he was born in Greifswald on the Baltic Sea. Throughout his life, he remained closely connected to his North German roots and so the ...
The artist Carl Spitzweg did not devote his attention to the major events of his time. On the contrary, he focussed on small, familiar things, such as here in our garden picture. It shows the back of ...
Although Alexandre Calame lived with a deformed foot and, after an accident, had only one eye, the painter often went hiking. At the age of 61, he ventured to the edge of steep cliffs near the Rütli t...
When the Zurich citizen Johann Heinrich Füssli was asked to illustrate Shakespeare’s plays around 1786, he was already a star in London, where he had been living for a long time, calling himself Henry...
In the German Empire, horse racing was part of the modern lifestyle. This was also the case in Berlin, the hometown of the artist Max Liebermann. Here, attending a horse race was one of the highlights...
At the beginning of the 20th century Hodler developed into one of the few great independent landscape artists in Europe. For more than a decade he occupied himself with motifs from the mountain and l...
At the beginning of the 20th-century Paris wasn’t only the city of leading painters but also the city of great sculptors. Rodin, Maillol, Medardo Rosso....
Shaped by new knowledge of the mountains, which now were being explored and researched, with his unique view of the powerful natural setting, Caspar Wolf set a landmark in European landscape painting....
With its almost completely abandoned spatial depth and its flat strictness, chalk cliffs on Rügen is one of Friedrich’s most radical compositions. At the same time, it belongs to the most colourful an...
Jacob van Ruisdael was one of the most innovative European landscape painters. He belonged to the first painters who regarded the landscape as a mirror of life and transience....