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Albert Bierstadt, portrait by Napoleon Sarony. Albert Bierstadt (1830–1902) was a German-born American painter best known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the American West.
Among the Sierra Nevada, California, 1868, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. Rocky Mountain Landscape, 1870, White House, Washington, D.C. In 1858, Bierstadt exhibited a large painting of a Swiss landscape at the National Academy of Design, which gained him positive critical reception and honorary membership in the Academy. [4]
The Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL (short WSL, German: Eidgenössische Forschungsanstalt für Wald, Schnee und Landschaft WSL, French: Institut fédéral de recherches sur la forêt, la neige et le paysage WSL, Italian: Istituto federale di ricerca per la foresta, la neve e il paesaggio WSL) is a solution-orientated research organisation specialising in on ...
The goal of the G59 was to promote Swiss horticulture and give young people an understanding of horticulture and landscape architecture. The G59 was set up based on the structure of the German horticulture expositions, which advocated for profession and the reconstruction of cities destroyed in World War II , and of the “Landi”, the Swiss ...
In Italy Swiss artists were exposed to both classical art and architecture as well as Neoclassical works. The ideas of Classicism, Romanticism, Humanism and Sturm und Drang, among others, flooded into the country. At the same time, the foundation of the Helvetische Gesellschaft in 1761 helped develop Switzerland's national identity and unify ...
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The architecture division develops an increasingly more scientific orientation New subjects, such as sociology (1962, Lucius Burckhardt), are introduced The teaching principles for architectural design are systematised by Hoesli (the teaching principles for construction are later systematised by Heinz Ronner and those for design by Peter Jenny ...
Following is a list of notable Swiss architects: This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .