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Artists from A-Z Gustav Stettler

1913–2005
  • Winter im Elsass (1958/1959)
    Winter im Elsass
    Artist: Gustav Stettler Dating: 1958/1959 Type: Painting Material: Oil on canvas Measures: 90 x 130 cm Acces / purchase date: 1977 Inventory number: 0389 Copyright: © Nachlass Gustav Stettler; Fotos: Christian Baur, Basel
  • Abend am See (bei Interlaken) (1974/1976)
    Abend am See (bei Interlaken)
    Artist: Gustav Stettler Dating: 1974/1976 Type: Painting Material: Oil on canvas Measures: 80 x 120 cm Acces / purchase date: 1979 Inventory number: 0392 Copyright: © Nachlass Gustav Stettler; Fotos: Christian Baur, Basel
Also in the post-war years, Stettler began to work on a type of picture that became a hallmark of his mature work: large-format portraits painted in full or half figure against an empty background. Especially when several individuals form groups, it becomes clear in the empty spaces in between how little there is to connect them and how each individual sees the world with his or her own eyes. Without external motives, the people in Stettler's pictures are simply there, witnesses of the moment and manifestations of their own presence.

Hans-Peter Wittwer: "Gustav Stettler". In: SIKART Lexikon zur Kunst in der Schweiz, 2018.