Modernités suisses. Chypre De la basilique Saint-Marc au

De la basilique Saint-Marc au pont des Soupirs

Presented at the exhibition are the painters Edmond Aman-Jean

All are described

Souvent décrit comme l’archétype de l’homo universalis

dedicated to a key element of regional identity

Modernités suisses. Chypre De la basilique Saint-Marc auTrained in France, Germany or Italy for some, in connection with the European avant gardes, Swiss artists explore the expressive, symbolic or decorative power of line and color, while focusing on subjects drawn from a Swiss history and national culture in the process of inventing themselves, with the context of the affirmation of the young federal state, created in 1848. These painters and this fertile period of European art remain, however,