Three great Swiss artists

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Cuno Amiet, Portrait of Giovanni Giacometti, 1910, private collection, courtesy Silvan Faessler Fine Art. Photo: © SIK-ISEA, Zurich © SIK-ISEA, Zürich

Giovanni Giacometti, Violin Player, 1927, private collection, courtesy Silvan Faessler Fine Art. Photo: © SIK-ISEA, Zurich

Ferdinand Hodler. The Day III, c.1900/1910, Museum of Art Lucerne, permanent loan from the Bernhard Eglin-Stiftung. Photo: © Museum of Art Lucerne

Cuno Amiet, A Girl Sitting, 1915, Museum of Art Lucerne, permanent loan from the Bernhard Eglin-Stiftung. Photo: © Museum of Art Lucerne

Cuno Amiet (1868–1961), Dandelion Meadow, 1903, private collection, courtesy Silvan Faessler Fine Art. Photo: © SIK-ISEA, Zurich

Ferdinand Hodler, Lake Thun with Stockhorn, 1910, private collection. Photo: © SIK-ISEA, Zurich

Cuno Amiet, Portrait of a Girl, 1907, private collection. Photo: © SIK-ISEA, Zurich

Giovanni Giacometti, tiger lilies, 1909, private collection, courtesy Silvan Faessler Fine Art. Photo: © SIK-ISEA, Zurich

Ferdinand Hodler, The Woodcutter, c.1910, Museum of Art Lucerne, permanent loan from the Bernhard Eglin-Stiftung. Photo: © Museum of Art Lucerne

Giovanni Giacometti, In The Tavern, 1915, Museum of Art Lucerne. Photo: © Museum of Art Lucerne, 2010

Giovanni Giacometti, Self-Portrait, 1923, Museum of Art Lucerne, permanent loan from the Gottfried Keller-Stiftung. Photo: © Museum of Art Lucerne

Ferdinand Hodler, The Breithorn, c.1911, Museum of Art Lucerne, permanent loan from the Bernhard Eglin-Stiftung. Photo: © Museum of Art Lucerne

Ferdinand Hodler, Linienherrlichkeit (the glory of lines), 1908, private collection. Photo: © SIK-ISEA, Zurich

Giovanni Giacometti, Winter Landscape, 1927, private collection. Photo: © SIK-ISEA, Zurich

Cuno Amiet, Self-Portrait, 1920, Museum of Art Lucerne, permanent loan from the Swiss Confederation. Photo: © Museum of Art Lucerne

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Ferdinand Hodler, Giovanni Giacometti and Cuno Amiet 

This triumvirate of Swiss artists, who were both friends and rivals, dominated the art scene in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Here is a selection of their works from a 2010 retrospective at the Museum of Art in Lucerne.