• PAINTERS

ROB HEFFERAN, ENGLISH PAINTER – Capturing skin tones, movement, and fabric

• Author Biography

LOVERS OF LITERATURE AND MRS GASKELL – The Life of Charlotte Brontë, novel by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Her house on Plymouth Grove remained in the Gaskell family until 1913. http://www.elizabethgaskellhouse.co.uk/ In 2004 it was acquired by the…

• POETRY

ITS PEN NAME WAS LEWIS CARROLL – Charles L. Dodgson: write and create games, as a child

He, the young adult Charles, had curly brown hair and blue or grey eyes, was about 1.83 m tall and…

• PAINTERS

MARC STOCK (1951/2014), AMERICAN PAINTER – Stylish women in slinky gowns and white-gloved butlers

• PAINTERS

FREDERICK LEIGHTON (1830/1896), ENGLISH PAINTER – Painting solidly drawn figures with luminous colours

• PAINTERS

ALFRED STEVENS (1823/1906), BELGIAN PAINTER – The immensely successful painter, known for his paintings of elegant modern women

• POETRY

POETRY FROM SWITZERLAND

OUR LIVES ARE SWISS – Poem by Emily Dickinson So still, so cool. Till some odd afternoon the Alps neglect…

• Library

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…

• PAINTERS

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…

• PAINTERS

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