André Lasserre Panthère (Panther), circa 1926 André Lasserre began his career in Paris as a student of Antoine Bourdelle at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière before moving to Lausanne in…
Laura B. Goeldlin de Tiefenau Sapho se précipitant dans la mer (Sappho throwing herself in the sea), 1943 Laura B. Goeldlin de Tiefenau was born in the United States and studied painting and sculpting in Santa Barbara, California. When she moved to Switzerland…
Félix Labisse Portrait de Jean-Louis Barrault (Portrait of Jean-Louis Barrault), 1947 In 1940, André Gide sat down to re-read Kafka's 1925 novel The Trial, recounting the arrest of Josef K., a bank clerk caught up in…
Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer Le génie de Ludwig van Beethoven (The Spirit of Ludwig van Beethoven), circa 1906-1910 Beethoven was honoured as a quasi-divine figure as early as the ceremonies held to mark his funeral in 1827. For the Romantic generation, his extraordinarily…
