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(b Basle, 20 July 1900;
d Sugar Loaf, NY, 2 Jan 1962).
American painter, printmaker,
sculptor, stage designer and writer of Swiss birth.
He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Geneva (1920)
and at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence (1927).
From this training he drew upon two dominant influences,
combining a predilection for the illusionistic deep
space and the clear vibrant color of the Italian tradition
with the fantastic narratives explored by earlier
Swiss artists such as Johann Heinrich Füseli,
Ferdinand Hodler, Urs Graf and Niklaus Manuel Deutsch.
-from the Grove Dictionary of Art
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