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READING SWISS NOVELS – The promise, crime novel by Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Friedrich Dürrenmatt was a Swiss author and dramatist. He was born in Konolfingen, and his family moved to Bern in 1935. He began studies in philosophy (German language and literature), at the University of Zurich, In 1943, he decided to become an author and dramatist, and dropped his academic career. His technique, was influenced by Bertolt Brecht, as in the …

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PAINTING THE REALISM OFTHE SOLIDITY – Albert Anker: the reflex vision of a harmonic world order

ALBERT ANKER 1/3 – Only after his death in 1910 was there a first exposition dedicated to him. He has been called the national painter of Switzerland, because of his enduringly popular depictions of 19th-century Swiss village life. As you can observe, Anker’s portraiture reveals a pronounced desire for individualization. He studied theology, and continuing at the university of Halle, …

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ALBERT ANKER HOUSE, INS /SWISS

Everyone loves to travel, but not everyone loves to travel the same way. All you have to do is have the time in your life. Meeting Benches. The way to make the world a better place is easy. Choose a bench, where you can publish what you have painted or written, a review of a book that you’ve read, or …

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ALBERT ANKER (1831/1910), SWISS PAINTER – When the portrait reveals a pronounced desire for individualization

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IN ANY SEASON UNMISSABLE, FOR FANS OF ART – Basel, Switzerland that you could not imagine

Vitruvian Man created by Leonardo da Vinci is a design, where a man in two overlapped positions (with arms and legs spread wide), is inscribed in a circle and a square. https://leonardodavinci.stanford.edu/submissions/clabaugh/history/leonardo.html Throughout the centuries, that image has become a cultural icon. Perfectly proportioned, the symmetry of the human anatomy is correlated with the symmetry of the universe. That man …

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ARDENGO SOFFICI (1879/1964), ITALIAN PAINTER – The primacy of pictorial visibility, after the experiences of Cubism and Futurism

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ON THE LEFT OF RIO PISUERGA – Valladolid and Old Castile, chests Inside stone ancient castles

Vitruvian Man created by Leonardo da Vinci is a design, where a man in two overlapped positions (with arms and legs spread wide), is inscribed in a circle and a square. https://leonardodavinci.stanford.edu/submissions/clabaugh/history/leonardo.html Throughout the centuries, that image has become a cultural icon. Perfectly proportioned, the symmetry of the human anatomy is correlated with the symmetry of the universe. That man …

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WHERE YOU CAN EMBRACE AIR AND WATER – Pyrenean Massif of Maladeta, between Spain and France

Vitruvian Man created by Leonardo da Vinci is a design, where a man in two overlapped positions (with arms and legs spread wide), is inscribed in a circle and a square. https://leonardodavinci.stanford.edu/submissions/clabaugh/history/leonardo.html Throughout the centuries, that image has become a cultural icon. Perfectly proportioned, the symmetry of the human anatomy is correlated with the symmetry of the universe. That man …

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EXPANDING IMAGINATION CAPACITY – Jean Calogero: unreal worlds that arise listening to classical music

JEAN CALOGERO 1/3 – First exhibitions in 1945 in Sicily, and he is best known for his Surrealistic and Genre pieces. Born in Sicily in 1922, from a modest background he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Catania, and the Academie des Beaux-Arts in Paris, lived and worked for many years in Paris and Italy (also exhibited in …

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JEAN CALOGERO (1922/2001), ITALIAN PAINTER – Surrealistic and Genre pieces, between Sicily and Paris

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