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Fine Arts in Switzerland

Famous Swiss Painters

• Konrad Witz (born between 1400 and 1410 in Rottweil, Germany, died 1445 in Basel)
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• Johann Heinrich Füssli [Henry Fuseli / Fusely] (born 1741 Zurich, died 1825 Putney Hill/London). Romantic painter.
  biography, comment, pictures
• Johann Ludwig Aberli
• Jacques-Laurent Agasse
• Cuno Amiet
• Albert Anker
• Hans Asper
• Karl Bodmer
• Arnold Böcklin [Boecklin] (1827-1901) pictures
• Ferdinand Hodler
• Paul Klee
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• Hans Erni
• H.R. Giger
• Ferdinand Hodler
• Angelica Kauffmann
• Rafael Ritz
• Sophie Taeuber-Arp
• Hans Brühlmann
• Helen Dahm
• Adolf Dietrich
• Ignaz Epper
• Ernst Kreidolf
• Martha Haffter
• Carl Roesch
• Ernst Emil Schlatter

Famous Swiss Sculptors

Alberto Giacometti is known for his distinctive elongated figures Jean Tinguely created elaborate moving mechanical sculptures Tinguely fountain in Basel: pictures and video clips Max Bill

Some museums of fine arts in Switzerland

• Kunsthaus Zurich
• Kunsthalle Basel (contemporary art)
• Kunstmuseum Basel (15th to 20th century, outstanding collection of works by Holbein)
• Fondation Beyeler, Basel
• Tinguely Museum, Basel
• Kunsthalle Bern
• Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny
• Kunstmuseum Lucerne
• Paul Klee Zentrum, Bern
• Rosengart Collection, Lucerne (Klee, Picasso, Miró, Matisse ...)
• Kartause Ittingen hosting Thurgau's Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts