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Projecting a global image of success

This content was published on Nov 30, 2007 With an oeuvre ranging from canvases to woodcuts, the Swiss artist became internationally famous at the end of the 1960s with his giant photorealist paintings. But Anita Shah, the new director of the five-year-old museum, plans to promote Gertsch as a classical painter. Franz Gertsch was born in the village of Mörigen in 1930 and…