CUNO AMIET (Solothurn 1868 -1961 Oschwand), Peter, 1929

CUNO AMIET
(Solothurn 1868 -1961 Oschwand)
Peter, 1929
encaustic/canvas, 46 x 38,4 cm
signed C. Amiet, monogrammed CA and dated 29
verso signed C. Amiet, titled Peter 1929, label art museum Olten
exhibited in the Kunsthalle Bern 1938, catalog no. 94
the work is registered at the Swiss Institute for Art History with the number 94223
Provenance: collection Edwin Lüscher Switzerland, auction house Fischer Switzerland 2009, European private collection

ESTIMATE °€ 30.000 - 50.000
START € 25.000

Swiss painter, graphic artist and sculptor. Pioneer of Swiss Modernism, main representative of Swiss Expressionism. Studied from 1886 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Caspar Ritter, Gabriel von Hackl, Karl Raupp and Nikolaus Gysis. Lifelong friendship with Giovanni Giacometti, godfather of the eldest son Alberto Giacometti. In Munich in the circle of Franz Baur, Max Buri, Wilhelm Balmer, Emil Dill, Walter Mettler, Charles Welti and others. Influenced by Post-Impressionist painters such as Paul Gauguin, Émile Bernard and Paul Sérusier, but also by Ferdinand Hodler and Giovanni Segantini. From 1988 studied in Paris at the Académie Julian with Tony Robert-Fleury, among others, together with Pierre Bonnard, Édouard Vuillard, Maurice Denis and Paul Sérusier. Joins the Nabis group of artists with Félix Vallotton. 1893 Travels to Pont Aven in Brittany, in the following years acquaintance and influence of Ferdinand Hodler and Giovanni Segantini. 1904 exhibition at the Vienna Secession, 1905 exhibition at the Richter Gallery in Dresden. Contact with Erich Heckel, Fritz Bleyl, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and joins the Dresden artists' group Brücke. 1931 50 paintings destroyed in fire at Munich Glass Palace, 1937 many works confiscated in Nazi action Degenerate Art. Created colorful and expressionistic landscapes and portraits, often described as Swiss Bonnard.



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