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
Ferdinand Hodler, Giovanni Giacometti and Cuno Amiet
This content was published on July 21, 2010
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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.
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