Walter Ropele - Artist Info

About Walter Ropele

  • Biography

    Walter Ropélé was born in 1934. Ropele studied the profession of the writer, and studied at the art academy in Basel under Martin A. Christ, Theo Eble, and Lenz Klotz from 1957-1960.


    Then he studied history and German language studies at the university of his hometown. From 1969 he worked as a copywriter at the Werbeagentur GGK.


    Since his first major exhibition in 1988 at the Daniel Blaise Thorens Fine Art Gallery in Basel, Ropélé has been active exclusively as an artist.


    The oeuvre, which has been increasingly rural since his relocation to Solothurn, mainly comprises landscape and garden pieces, as well as still life and subjects with an urban character.


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