Swiss Modernity (1890-1914)

At the end of the 19th century, the art scene in Switzerland was of great vitality. Around the end of the 1890s, a generation of painters, such as Cuno Amiet, Giovanni and Augusto Giacometti, Felix Vallotton, Ernest Bieler and Max Buri, who profoundly renewed the art of their time. Trained in France, Germany or Italy for some of them, in connection with the European avant-garde, they explored the expressive, symbolic or decorative power of line and color, while focusing on subjects drawn from a Swiss national history and culture that was in the process of being invented, against the backdrop of the assertion of the young federal state, created in 1848.
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