Rebecca Horn Zen of Raven – Federskulptur (Zen of Raven – Feather Sculpture), 2008 Rebecca Horn made her first kinetic sculptures in the 1980s, building on a major period of creativity following the artist’s graduation from the Hamburg Hochschule…
Lubaina Himid Accidental Encounter, 2021 The leading contemporary artist Lubaina Himid was born in Tanzania in 1954. In the 1980s, she became a central figure in the British Black Arts…
Ferdinand Hodler Au pied du Salève (At the foot of the Salève), 1888 Ferdinand Hodler painted this landscape at the foot of the Salève, near Veyrier, in the countryside outside Geneva. This is the largest of some fifteen…
Horace Vernet Première messe en Kabylie (First mass in Kabylia), 1854 Horace Vernet first travelled to Algeria following the French army on its conquest of North Africa. His first of many visits to the country came…
Alain Huck Pause, 2019-2020 Alain Huck explored a number of creative paths before settling on drawing in the early 1990s, choosing the medium for the fragility it brought to…
Thomas Hirschhorn Swiss Army Knife, 1998 In 1984, Thomas Hirschhorn moved from Switzerland to Paris, where he still lives today, in order to join Grapus, a graphics collective with roots in…
David Hominal Flowers, 2006 David Hominal mixes images from different sources and references with different arts and pictorial traditions in order to take on the great narratives of painting,…
Ferdinand Hodler Étude pour Unanimité (Study for Unanimity), 1911/1912 The development of a Swiss national art policy in the 1880s and 1890s led to numerous government commissions for important buildings. Paradoxically, the polemic that…
Don Hazlitt Grave, 1997 Don Hazlitt worked on this painting while staying at the Nota Bene art residency in Cadaqués, Spain, in 1996. It is one of a series…
Alain Huck Sans titre (Untitled), 1989 Alain Huck studied at the École cantonale d'art in Lausanne from 1982 and 1986, where he was influenced by the néo-géo school and by his…
Ferdinand Hodler Portrait du Dr Louis Bourget, 1889 Hodler’s particular interest in the portrait towards the end of the 1880s is reflected in the idea of a course on the subject that he…
On display Ferdinand Hodler Le lac Léman vu de Chexbres (Lake Geneva Seen from Chexbres), 1904 On the train journey into Lausanne from Germanic Switzerland, travellers reaching the heights of Chexbres enjoy spectacular panoramas as Lake Geneva and the Alps of…
Thomas Huber Studio II, 1991 Thomas Huber studied at the Basel Kunstgewerbeschule, the Royal College of Art in London and the Düsseldorf Staatliche Kunstakademie He now lives and works in…
Alain Huck Kuroi Ame II, 2008 Kuroi Ame II is part of the Salons noirs series of huge charcoal works begun in 2006. Alain Huck explores great human tragedies in the…
Ferdinand Hodler Blick ins Unendliche (Gaze into Infinity), 1903 / 1904 Ferdinand Hodler met Gustav Klimt and many other artists of the Viennese avant-garde, as well as their collectors, when visiting the Austro-Hungarian capital in early…
