A Swiss Modernist Painter

Landscape with House, 1917, oil on hardboard, 37 x 46 cm (framed), 22.3 x 31.6 cm (unframed)

Landscape with House, 1917

The oil painting Landscape with House dates from 1917 and depicts a solitary house standing in a vast landscape, flanked by several tall trees. The use of white colors is striking: the painter renders both the foreground, consisting of a suggested hill, and the house and sky in shades of white. Heaven and earth seem to merge, with the lonely house enthroned at their seam, appearing to partake in both worlds. Only the tall trees, rendered in a rich dark green, lend weight to the painting and form a counterpoint to this dreamy, mystical landscape.