Félix Vallotton. Idyll on the Edge
05 Oct 2007 - 13 Jan 2008
FÉLIX VALLOTTON. IDYLL ON THE EDGE
The Kunsthaus Zürich shows 90 paintings by Félix Vallotton. A Swiss avant-garde painter in close contact with the Nabis, Vallotton distinguished himself from his contemporaries with his ironic portrayal of socially-critical themes. And in so doing he neither shied away from acerbic allusions nor did he seek to preserve the veneer of the bourgeois idyll. Many of his works already anticipate certain formal elements that would later feature importantly in Surrealism, New Objectivity and Pittura Metafisica.
Supported by Banca del Gottardo.
The Kunsthaus Zürich shows 90 paintings by Félix Vallotton. A Swiss avant-garde painter in close contact with the Nabis, Vallotton distinguished himself from his contemporaries with his ironic portrayal of socially-critical themes. And in so doing he neither shied away from acerbic allusions nor did he seek to preserve the veneer of the bourgeois idyll. Many of his works already anticipate certain formal elements that would later feature importantly in Surrealism, New Objectivity and Pittura Metafisica.
Supported by Banca del Gottardo.