Tree, houses, 1922, watercolour and charcoal
Kunstmuseum Bern
Alley in Ticino, April 1921, watercolour, charcoal and chalk
Kunstmuseum Bern
Terraced hills, September 1926, watercolour, charcoal and chalk
Kunstmuseum Bern
Translucent autumn, autumn day at Caslano, 1920, watercolour and charcoal
Kunstmuseum Bern
View from Casa Rossa over Montagnola, 1931, pen and ink and watercolours
Kunstmuseum Bern
Path under trees, July 1924, watercolour, charcoal and chalk
Kunstmuseum Bern
Dream vision, December 1917, gouache
Kunstmuseum Bern
Masked ball, 1926, watercolour and charcoal
Kunstmuseum Bern
Mountain and tree, for the fairytale "The hard way", 1919, watercolour, gouache and charcoal
Kunstmuseum Bern
Wonky telephone pole, August 1928, watercolour and charcoal
Kunstmuseum Bern
Red tree, town, blue hill, 1919, watercolour and charcoal
Kunstmuseum Bern
Terrace, Montagnola, July 1921, watercolour and charcoal
Kunstmuseum Bern
Self-portrait, around 1919, watercolour, gouache and charcoal
Kunstmuseum Bern
Bosco Luganese, August 1923, watercolour, charcoal and feather
Kunstmuseum Bern
Shed in vineyard, 1927, watercolour and pencil
Kunstmuseum Bern
A retrospective in Bern is devoted to Hermann Hesse's paintings.
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The author (1877-1962) lived in the Swiss capital from 1912 to 1919, a period marked by deep crises. Hesse began not only psychotherapy but also his until now little-known career as a painter, which reached its peak in the 1920s and 1930s in Montagnola, a village in canton Ticino.
To mark the 50th anniversary of the death of the Nobel Prize winner, the Kunstmuseum Bern and the Hermann Hesse Museum in Montagnola are presenting the exhibition “Flying over borders”. It is the first retrospective of Hesse’s painted oeuvre.
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