The 417 Artworks exhibited in Switzerland

La Grenouillère was a popular working class resort consisting of a spa, a boating establishment and a floating café. Optimistically promoted as 'Trouville-sur-Seine', it was located on the Seine near Bougival, easily accessible by train from Paris and had just been favoured with a visit by Emperor N...

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The painting depicts the view from the chalk cliffs of the Stubbenkammer, at that time one of the most famous lookout points on the island. It is frequently but incorrectly believed that the Wissower Klinken outcrops in particular were a model for the painting; however, these did not exist at the ti...

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Daubigny's Garden, painted three times by Vincent van Gogh, depicts the enclosed garden of Charles-François Daubigny, a painter whom Van Gogh admired throughout his life. Van Gogh started with a small study of a section of the garden. Then he worked on two double-square paintings of the full walled ...

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This painting shows the obsessions of the painter: war, plague and death. In this scene, the Black Death is represented by Death holding a scythe and devastates everything in its path. In the background, a huge cloud of smoke towards which indicates that Death mankind is driven to the Apocalypse. It...

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The vantage point for the painting was his room within the hospital. Van Gogh's description and his painting of the garden allow for identification of its flowers, such as: blue bearded irises, forget-me-nots, oleander, pansies, primroses, and poppies. The original design of the courtyard as describ...

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Landscape with Cows and Camel (Deutsch: Landschaft mit Kühen und Kamel) is a 1914 color on canvas painting by German Expressionist August Macke (1887–1914) who was one of the leading members of Der Blaue Reiter group (The Blue Rider). It is drawn on Orphism style and based on painting animal genre a...

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This painting is part of the work of transition to synthetic cubism . It reuses invented by technical Georges Braque in 1911 which is to include letters and words in the web . It reads in part: 'Nimes' 'olé' 'the bullfighter.' Picasso and Braque were there two capitals inventions: the use of collage...

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The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb is an oil and tempera on limewood painting created by the German artist and printmaker Hans Holbein the Younger between 1520–22. The work shows a life-size, grotesque depiction of the stretched and unnaturally thin, decomposing body of Jesus Christ lying in hi...

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