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