Hans Erni, considered by some to be Switzerland’s Picasso, passed away on Saturday at the age of 106. Born in Lucerne in 1909, the sculptor and painter never stopped working. He completed the fresco at the entrance of the Palais des Nations, which contains the office of the United Nations in Geneva in 2009. The video below produced by SRF and swissinfo.ch looks back on his incredible life.
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Artist and sculptor Hans Erni turns 106 (Swissinfo.ch – in English)
Zeki Ergas says
At a time when art has become largely critique and a business – a Gauguin has sold recently for 300 million euros to a qatari buyer, and a Swiss middleman claims to be justified to receive a 50 million dollars fee on a painting sold to a Russian oligarch, Hans Erni was a figurative and popular artist appreciated and understood by a large public. He was also an artist engagé, he cared for social justice. Switzerland has lost one of its greatest artists. He will be missed