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Includes commentary to works. Brief text on the lender museums: Basel Kunstmuseum, Bern Kunstmuseum, Winterthur Kunstmuseum, and Zurich Kunsthaus.
Shows Henry Fuseli as a highly educated and sophisticated inventor of powerful and idiosyncratic images and surprising interpretations of the great texts of world literature. This book presents little known aspects of Fuseli's work: portraits of fashionably dressed women with extravagant hairdos and erotic drawings.
Analyse : Notices sur François Bocion (1828-1890), Alexandre Calame (1810-1864), Louis Ducros (1748-1810), Charles Gleyre (1806-1874), Jacques Sablet (1749-1803), Félix Vallotton (1865-1925).
British painting past and present meet as Ken Howard (b. 1932), one of England’s most popular contemporary artists, follows the trail of world-renowned painter J.M.W. Turner, one of his heroes. Over the last several years Howard has been exploring the Swiss journeys of his illustrious predecessor, using Turner’s travels there as his inspiration for an exciting new body of work. This handsome book contains an introduction to Turner’s experience of the breathtaking Swiss lakes and mountains, some 100 striking new paintings by Howard, and photographs of him at work in the Alpine landscape.
Probably the most influential and popular Swiss landscape painter of the 19th century, Alexandre Calame (1810-1864) is renowned for his grand Alpine views. Painted with dramatic effects of light and atmosphere, these paintings were based on sharply observed details taken from close natural study and depict recognizable locations. Calame visited France, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, and England, making outdoor oil sketches from which he then created finished paintings in his studio. Calame first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1835, and his works appealed to the growing number of Alpine tourists and were purchased by King Louis-Philippe and Napoleon. This handsome book focuses on Calame’s oil sketches--many of which have never been published in color--in addition to several paintings and related drawings and prints. With essays that discuss Calame's landscapes in the context of 19th-century trends in European art and culture, it also features works by Swiss artists Fran�ois Diday, Barth�lemy Menn, and Robert Z�nd.