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Born February 29, 1864 • Switzerland
Died November 6, 1930 (aged 66) • Bern • Switzerland
Movement / Style art brut • outsider art
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Peider Lansel
Romansh poet
Oskar Kokoschka
Oskar Kokoschka
Austrian painter and writer
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Paul Klee
Swiss-German artist
Constant, detail of an oil painting by Hercule des Roches, c. 1830; in the Musée Carnavalet, Paris
Benjamin Constant
French author
Max Frisch
Max Frisch
Swiss author
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Carl Spitteler
Swiss poet
Gottfried Keller, drawing by R. Leemann, 1842; in the Zentralbibliothek, Zürich
Gottfried Keller
Swiss author
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Stefano Franscini
Swiss statesman
Fuseli, Henry: The Three Witches Appearing to Macbeth and Banquo
Henry Fuseli
Swiss-born painter
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Peter Bichsel
Swiss author
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Robert Walser
Swiss writer
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Jakob Schaffner
Swiss writer
Lavater, Johann Kaspar
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Swiss writer
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Heinrich Federer
Swiss writer
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Albert Steffen
Swiss writer
Amman, Jost: The Miner
Jost Amman
Swiss-born painter and printmaker
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Urs Graf
Swiss artist
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Adolf Frey
Swiss writer and historian
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Meinrad Inglin
Swiss author
Henri Frédéric Amiel
Henri Frédéric Amiel
Swiss writer