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Sleeping Boy In The Hay Print by Albert Anker

Sleeping boy in the hay

Boeckligumpen Print by Albert Anker

Boeckligumpen

The Grape Harvest Festival Print by Albert Anker

The Grape Harvest Festival

Girl With Milk Jug And Basket Print by Albert Anker

Girl with milk jug and basket

Old Man Smoking His Pipe Print by Albert Anker

Old man smoking his pipe

Elderly Woman Reading The Bible Print by Albert Anker

Elderly Woman Reading the Bible

Knitting Girl Watching The Toddler In A Craddle Print by Albert Anker

Knitting girl watching the toddler in a craddle

Sleeping Girl On A Wooden Bench Print by Albert Anker

Sleeping Girl on a Wooden Bench

Marie Anker With Doll Print by Albert Anker

Marie Anker with Doll

Portrait Of A Girl Print by Albert Anker

Portrait of a Girl

The Little Mother Print by Albert Anker

The little mother

Schoolboy Print by Albert Anker

Schoolboy

Portrait Of A Girl Print by Albert Anker

Portrait of a Girl

The Little Boy With The Big Carrot Print by Albert Anker

The Little Boy with the Big Carrot

Girl In Bernese Costume Print by Albert Anker

Girl in Bernese costume

Bathers Print by Albert Anker

Bathers

Girl With Red Hood Print by Albert Anker

Girl with red hood

Girl With Cats Print by Albert Anker

Girl with cats

Grandfather On The Oven Bench Print by Albert Anker

Grandfather on the oven bench

Forest Road Print by Albert Anker

Forest Road

Girl With Bouquet Print by Albert Anker

Girl with Bouquet

Grandmother With Patchwork Print by Albert Anker

Grandmother with patchwork

Herring Print by Albert Anker

Herring

Portrait Of A Young Boy Print by Albert Anker

Portrait of a young boy

Fortune Teller Print by Albert Anker

Fortune Teller

Old Pipe Smoker Reading The Seelaender Boten Print by Albert Anker

Old pipe smoker reading the Seelaender Boten

Grandmother Spooning The Soup To Her Grandchild Print by Albert Anker

Grandmother spooning the Soup to her Grandchild

Old Woman With Spindle Print by Albert Anker

Old Woman with Spindle

Old Man Taking A Rest. Gyp Print by Albert Anker

Old Man taking a Rest. Gyp

Writing Boy With Sister Print by Albert Anker

Writing boy with sister

Grandfather With Cup Of Coffee Print by Albert Anker

Grandfather with Cup of Coffee

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The Girl with the dominoes, Tondo

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Young mother contemplating her sleeping child in candlelight

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Fortune Teller

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Portrait of a Peasant Woman

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Girl Knitting

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A Farmer's Wife, Sewing

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A girl knitting

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A Peasant Woman Reading

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A Seated Farmer with a Pipe

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A simple meal

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Playing girl at the stove

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Writing girl (Marie Anker)

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The school exam

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The village tailor

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A Gotthelf reader

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Jakob Böhm

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Young mother, looking her sleeping child at candlelight

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Schoolboy

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Self-portrait in profile to the left

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Still life - intemperance

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Old sitting man in profile

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Grandmother reading the Bible

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Portrait of a young woman

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Portrait of a blond girl

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Portrait of a boy

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Portrait of Therese von Wyttenbach-Fischer

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The Absinthe Drinker

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The little knitters

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Grandmother reading the Bible

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Boy in Ins

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Marie Anker

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Marie Anker

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Writing boy

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Self-portrait

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Chrétien Sons

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Study on The Kappeler milk soup

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Self-Portrait as Zofinger Student

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Farmer with two children

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Schoolgirl with homework

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Old Woman with Yarn Spindle

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Old Woman

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Old Man Reading

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Old man taking a rest

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An Interior with Mother and Children

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An old man eating soup

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The Bourbakis

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Chiusi

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The village clerk

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The Drinker

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The devotion of the grandfather

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The Industrious

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The farmers and the newspaper

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The village school

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The young potato Peeler

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The knuckle Player

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The exiles

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The strawberry Mareili

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Grandfather tells a story

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Kappeler milk soup

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Children funeral

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Kids breakfast

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Country children

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Girl feeding chickens

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Girl in front of window niche

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Melchior Römer

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Neolithics man

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Neolithics woman

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San Giorgio in Mantua

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Sleeping boy in the hay

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School walk

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Soap Bubbles

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Sunday Afternoon

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Still life beer and radish

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Still life coffee and cognac

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Still life of tea and bread rolls

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Girl Knitting

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Gym class in Ins

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Two sleeping girl near the stove

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Anneli after the accident

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At the cemetery

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Bearded man with hat

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Farmer with stocking cap

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Farm Room with Green oven

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Lake Biel at Twann

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Portrait of Bethli Oser

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Portrait of Christine Preiswerk

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Portrait of Jean-Jaques Küffer

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Portrait of a girl with red head covering

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Portrait of Marie Anker

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Portrait of Dora Luthy

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View of the Cathedral of Lausanne

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Blonde Girl knitting

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Albert Anker

Boy Eating an Apple

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Letter writing Girl

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Chest picture of a young woman in costume, with hood

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Bust of a blond woman with necklace

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Cécile Anker

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Child at a Table

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Chuchli Mother

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Cressier Corner

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Cook with suckling pig

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Lady with large lace cap

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Danae

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The song of home

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The Room - Study of Interieur (The Nursery)

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The Absithe Drinker

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Old Feissli with Stick and Hat

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The guard

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The Siblings Zaeslin; 2) Rosy Zaeslin (STUDY)

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The Mother is coming

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Drawing of a boy after a classical sculpture.

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Figure Study with Farmer

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First Smile

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Woman at Table - Verso Interior with Table

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Woman portrait in profile

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Girl eating

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Girl in a red cap.

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Girl reading

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Girl with Doll and Toys

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Girl writing

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Grandmother giving Soup to her Grandchild

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Grandfather with Sleeping Granddaughter

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Hippocrates

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Im Moos

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Young Woman from Bern Reading

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Young Woman at Loom

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Young Girl with basket of provisions

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Albert Anker

Jura Landscape

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Potato peeling Girl

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Children on a meadow

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Children at the Shed

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Portrait of a Boy

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Portrait of a Boy

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Portrait of a Boy

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Knitting Girl

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Head of a Peasant Woman

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Kitchen Interion, on the Back Girl Portrait

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Mariette with Strawberries

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Lavater seated

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New Born

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The seminarian

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Little Red Riding Hood

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Reading Woman

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Reading Grandmother at Furnace

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Reading Young Peasant Woman, Sitting Right

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Reading old farmer

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Reading Grandfather

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Reading Young Girl

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Reading Girl

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Reading Girl

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Reading Girl

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Lot of five drawings

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Louise Anker

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Girl with homework

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Girl in Profile

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Girl in Winter Landscape

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Girl with Loaf of Bread

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Girl with Loaf of Bread

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Girl with Cats

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Girl with little sister

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Girl braiding her hair

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Portrait of a Girl

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Albert Anker

Man reading a newspaper

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Marie Anker with Doll

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Marie Anker

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Marie Anker

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Girl combing

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Mother with two children

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Mother and Child

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Pestalozzi

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Portrait of Sully

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Portrait of a young girl

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Portrait of a Man

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Portrait of a boy in profile.

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Portrait of a Boy

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Portrait of a Girl

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Portrait of a Girl

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Portrait of a Girl

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Portrait of a woman peeling an apple

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Portrait of a Woman

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Portrait of a Young Boy

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Portrait of a Young Girl

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Portrait of Pasquale Alonzo

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Portrait of Ambroise Pare

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Reading Girl

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Recto Boy with basket. Verso

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River landscape in Wasen

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Roeseli, knitting

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Rudi Anker

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Rudi Anker, dead

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Saint Genoveva

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School Boy

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Boy Writing

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Schoolgirl

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Schoolboy with Slate

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Seated man

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Sitting Farmer in Landscape

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Sitting Farmer with Pipe

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Seated Nude Boy

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Sitting Girl with Hair Band and Cloth Shoulder, Right

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Seated Reading Woman

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Soldier in 16th century costume

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Sunday Rest

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Eating girl at the table

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Still Life

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Study for Anker's 'Die Badenden'

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Study for 'Grandmother reading'

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Study of a saint

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Tea and melting roll

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Head of a Young Woman

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Head of Young Girl, her eyes very profound

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The artist's mother

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The elder sister

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The Little Musician

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The Whistle Carver

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The Crèche

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Woman Sewing

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Young woman in traditional costume

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Young woman reading at a table

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Civil ceremony

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Two Children with Slate Board

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Two children in front of a barn

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Playing with dolls

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Queen Bertha and the Spinners

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Selfportrait

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The Knucklebones Player

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The Kappel milk soup

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Reclining Nude

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Albert Anker

Albert Anker

Albert Anker

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Albrecht Samuel Anker (April 1, 1831 – July 16, 1910) was a Swiss painter and illustrator who has been called the "national painter" of Switzerland because of his enduringly popular depictions of 19th-century Swiss village life.[1]

Life
Born in Ins as the son of veterinarian Samuel Anker (then a member of the constituent assembly of the Canton of Bern), Anker attended school in Neuchâtel, where he and Auguste Bachelin, later a fellow artist, took early drawing lessons with Louis Wallinger in 1845–48.[2] In 1849–51, he attended the Gymnasium Kirchenfeld (de) in Bern, graduating with the Matura.[2] Afterwards, he studied theology, beginning in 1851 in Bern and continuing at the university of Halle, Germany. But in Germany he was inspired by the great art collections, and in 1854 he convinced his father to agree to an artistic career. In Neuchâtel he got his name Albert, because it was much easier to pronounce for his French speaking classmates.

Anker moved to Paris, where he studied with Charles Gleyre and attended the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in 1855–60.[2] He installed a studio in the attic of his parents' house and participated regularly in exhibitions in Switzerland and in Paris.[1] Anker married Anna Rüfli in 1864, and they had six children together; the four children who did not die at an early age – Louise, Marie, Maurice and Cécile – appear in some of Anker's paintings. In 1866, he was awarded a gold medal at the Paris Salon for Schlafendes Mädchen im Walde (1865) und Schreibunterricht (1865); in 1878 he was made a knight of the Légion d'honneur.[2] In 1870–74 he was a member of the Grand Council of Bern,[2] where he advocated the construction of the Kunstmuseum Bern.

Apart from his regular wintertime stays in Paris, Anker frequently travelled to Italy and other European countries. In 1889–93 and 1895–98 he was a member of the Swiss Federal Art Commission and in 1900 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Bern.[2] A stroke in 1901 reduced his ability to work. Only after his death in 1910 was there a first exposition dedicated to him, held at the Musée d'art et d'histoire in Neuchâtel.[1]

Works
Le petit chaperon rouge, (Little Red Riding Hood), 1883
The exactingly painted Still Life: Excess (1896) depicts the remnants of a large meal

During his studies, Anker produced a series of works with historical and biblical themes, including paintings of Luther and Calvin.[1] Soon after returning to Ins, though, he turned to what would become his signature theme: the everyday life of people in rural communities. His paintings depict his fellow citizens in an unpretentious and plain manner, without idealising country life, but also without the critical examination of social conditions that can be found in the works of contemporaries such as Daumier, Courbet or Millet.[1] Although Anker did paint occasional scenes with a social significance, such as visits by usurers or charlatans to the village, his affirmative and idealistic Christian world-view did not include an inclination to issue any sort of overt challenge.[1]

Also prominent in Anker's work are the more than 30 still lifes he created. They depict both rural and urban table settings in the tradition of Chardin, their realist solidity reflecting Anker's vision of a harmonic and stable world order.[1] In addition, Anker created hundreds of commissioned watercolours and drawings, mostly portraits and illustrations, including for an edition of Jeremias Gotthelf's collected works.[1] To provide for a steady income, Anker also decorated more than 500 faience plates for the Alsatian producer Théodore Deck.[1]

Anker was quick to reach his artistic objectives and never strayed from his chosen path. His works, though, exude a sense of conciliation and understanding as well as a calm trust in Swiss democracy; they are executed with great skill, providing brilliance to everyday scenes through subtle choices in colouring and lighting.[1] Their parochial motives belie the open-mindedness towards contemporary European art and events that Anker's correspondence reflects.[1]


Reception

Albert Anker's work made him Switzerland's most popular genre painter of the 19th century, and his paintings have continued to enjoy a great popularity due to their general accessibility.[1] Indeed, as a student, Anker summed up his approach to art as follows: "One has to shape an ideal in one's imagination, and then one has to make that ideal accessible to the people."[1]

Many Swiss postage stamps and other media have incorporated Anker's work. His studio in Ins has been preserved as a museum by the Albert Anker Foundation. One of Anker's greatest admirers and collectors is former Swiss Federal Councillor Christoph Blocher, since the 1980s Switzerland's most influential conservative politician, who also published an apologetic essay on Anker.[3]


References

Bhattacharya-Stettler, Therese (1998). "Albert Anker" (PDF). SIKART dictionary and database (in German). Swiss Institute for Art Research. External link in |work= (help)
"Albert Anker – Biographie" (PDF). Albert Anker – Schöne Welt. Zum 100. Todestag. Eine Auseinandersetzung mit Albert Anker 7. Mai – 5. September 2010 (in German). Kunstmuseum Bern. 2010. External link in |work= (help)

Christoph Blocher (2006). "Schweizer Malerei: Tröstlich anzusehen" (in German). Die Weltwoche 17/06.

Bibliography

(German) H.A. Lüthy, S. Kuthy, Albert Anker (1980)
(German) S. Kuthy, T. Bhattacharya-Stettler, Albert Anker, Ölgemälde und Ölstudien (1995)

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