Andreas Walser

Andreas Walser (13 April 1908 – 19 March 1930) was a Swiss painter.

Biography

Andreas Walser was born on 13 April 1908 in Chur.^[1] He attended the gymnasium in Chur and completed his Matura in 1928.^[1] As a school student, he was already pursuing art and received encouragement from Augusto Giacometti and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, both of whom recognised his talent and supported his artistic development.^[1][2]

From 1928, Walser worked in his own studio in Paris.^[1] At the end of 1928, he met Pablo Picasso, followed in early 1929 by Jean Cocteau.^[2] Maurice Tabard introduced him to photography in 1929.^[1][2] Walser worked intensively as both a painter and writer, and his work attracted attention from art dealers and collectors.^[1]

Alongside his painting, Walser wrote prose, poems and aphorisms in German and French.^[2] His Paris years included intense periods of work as well as episodes of illness, and he continued to spend time in Graubünden.^[2][3] In early 1930, after a period of convalescence, he stayed for several weeks in Marseille and on Corsica before returning to Paris.^[2] He died in Paris on 19 March 1930, shortly before his twenty-second birthday.^[1][2][3]

Gallery

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  Blue heads
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  Untitled

References