Does Swiss art exist? The Musée d’Orsay set out to answer the question with a show that avoids folklore and clichés.
Cuno Amiet (1868-1961), Liegende Bretonin (Breton Woman Lying Down), 1893, oil on canvas, 65 x 80 cm/25.59 x 31.50 in (detail), Kunsthaus Zürich.
© Kunsthaus Zürich © Artists rights D. Thalmann, Aarau, Switzerland
In Réflexions sur l'art suisse ( Reflections on Swiss Art ), published in 1896, 50 years after the federal state was formed, painter and architect Albert Trachsel wrote that the Swiss exception was a matter of temperament: guardians of the nation’s "psychic and, therefore, aesthetic unity", its artists, "mountaineers by nature", produce "virile, muscular" work. In these identity-seeking times, the Musée d’Orsay exhibition surveys the Swiss scene following the retrospectives already focusing on Arnold Böcklin,…
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