Grove of birch trees behind the Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern Switzerland.
The Paul Klee museum is there; the family gravesite is in the cemetery nearby.
Grove of birch trees behind the Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern Switzerland.
The Paul Klee museum is there; the family gravesite is in the cemetery nearby.
The first three are a small selection from the Zentrum Paul Klee 'Kosmos Klee.'
Could not help adding Lyonel Feininger from the Bern Museum. Feininger knew each other, worked together at the Bauhaus and influenced each other.
The Aargauer Kunsthaus in Aarau Switzerland has assembled art by Swiss painters for a long time. The museum has been reconstructed and also has contemporary art, exhibits and activities for children now.
https://aargauerkunsthaus.ch/en/
Here are some lesser known Swiss naturalistic artists from the early 1900's:
Moon at Night be Frauenkirch-Davos
1925
Otto Morach, Forest with Promenading Guests at the Sanitorium, 1916
Ferdinand Hodler, Thunersee with Stockhorn Mountains, 1910
Spring Landscape
1903
Max Burgmeier
New Snow in Summer
1913
The Zurich Grossmünster was a seat of the Protestant Reformation in Switzerland and dates back at least to 1100. This is where Huldrich Zwingli led the Swiss Reformation starting in 1520. The cloister has a Reformation museum, with quotes from Zwingli and medieval carvings. The words on the column say "Work is something good, something godlike." What do the statues and carvings say?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grossm%C3%BCnster
Exhibit at Bozar:
Hans/Jean & Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Friends, Lovers, Partners
https://www.bozar.be/en/calendar/hansjean-arp-sophie-taeuber-arp-friends-lovers-partners
Sophie Taeuber-Arp died unexpectedly in 1942 due to a malfunctioning wood stove.
Hans/Jean continued their artistic collaboration even after her death and for the rest of his life.
Sophie Taeuber Arp, 1889 - 1943, was a brilliant Swiss artist who started her career in textiles, broadened to many other media. Please read about her in Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Taeuber-Arp
Wassily Kandinsky said about her: "Sophie Taeuber-Arp expressed herself by means of the 'colored relief,' especially in the last years of her life, using almost exclusively the simplest forms, geometric forms. The forms, by their sobriety, their silence, their way of being sufficient unto themselves, invite the hand, if it is skillful, to use the language that is suitable to it and which is often only a whisper; but often too the whisper is more expressive, more convincing, more persuasive, than the 'loud voice' that here and there lets itself burst out."
Sophie herself said: “Only when we go into ourselves and attempt to be entirely true to ourselves will we succeed in making things of value....”
https://www.moma.org/artists/5777