Tag: Switzerland

Painting: The outstanding masters at the turn of the century were F. Hodler, the innovator of monumental wall painting, and F. Vallotton, French by choice from Lausanne. More bold than…

Swiss art, term for art in the field of Switzerland. A general overview of Swiss art shows, apart from many peculiarities and interrelationships, art in the Alemannic area as closely…

German-speaking Switzerland until 1950 A document with the scene of the three Marys at the tomb of Christ from the 10th century, kept in the monastery of St. Gallen, attests…

LITERATURE: IN ITALIAN Quite modest compared to other Swiss literatures is the development of literature in Italian, which is too closely linked to the nearby Lombard culture. A distinguished figure…