Hans Emmenegger

The work of Swiss painter Hans Emmenegger (1866-1940) has finally beenmade available to a larger audience in this extensive monograph accompanyingthe exhibition in 2014 at Kunstmuseum Lucerne. Often considered along withhis contemporaries, Swiss realist and symbolist painters Holder and Bocklin,Emmenegger created an extensive oeuvre of landscapes, still lives, nudes, animaland architectural paintings. His oils of hills, bald trees, barren snowmelts, shadyforest glades and sunspots capture the magnificently desolate and forlorn landscapes of Central Switzerland and are considered a precursor to the realisticpaintings of Franz Gertsch and Gerhard Richter. Over 160 of his artworks arerepresented, many for the first time, with insightful and historical essays byPatricia Bieder, Monika Brunner, Christian Klemm, Domink Muller, Heinz Stahlhutand Peter Suter.