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Willy Guggenheim Varlin BIOGRAPHY
1900 Zurich - 1977 Bondo. Known for: Impasto painting style, preference for the grotesque, morbid, and melancholy themes.
Willy Guggenheim lived from 1900 to 1977. He studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule St. Gallen in 1919-1921. Subsequently, he moved to Berlin and became a student of Emil Orlik at the Staatliche... Read full biography
Willy Guggenheim lived from 1900 to 1977. He studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule St. Gallen in 1919-1921. Subsequently, he moved to Berlin and became a student of Emil Orlik at the Staatliche Kunstgewerbeschule. From 1923 to 1932 he lived in Paris where he attended the Académie Julian (1923), the... Read full biography
Willy Guggenheim lived from 1900 to 1977. He studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule St. Gallen in 1919-1921. Subsequently, he moved to Berlin and became a student of Emil Orlik at the Staatliche Kunstgewerbeschule. From 1923 to 1932 he lived in Paris where he attended the Académie Julian (1923), the Académie André Lhote (1923-1926) and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. In 1930, he became acquainted with the art dealer Zborowski, who signed him, gave him a studio and gave the artist name Varlin.... Read full biography
Willy Guggenheim lived from 1900 to 1977. He studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule St. Gallen in 1919-1921. Subsequently, he moved to Berlin and became a student of Emil Orlik at the Staatliche Kunstgewerbeschule. From 1923 to 1932 he lived in Paris where he attended the Académie Julian (1923), the Académie André Lhote (1923-1926) and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. In 1930, he became acquainted with the art dealer Zborowski, who signed him, gave him a studio and gave the artist name Varlin. After the death of his sponsor, Varlin settled down in Zurich. His sentimentalism, which made him reluctantly to make friends with other artists, is also reflected in the stylistic selfishness of his work: as a special exhibition in the Swiss and... Read full biography
Willy Guggenheim lived from 1900 to 1977. He studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule St. Gallen in 1919-1921. Subsequently, he moved to Berlin and became a student of Emil Orlik at the Staatliche Kunstgewerbeschule. From 1923 to 1932 he lived in Paris where he attended the Académie Julian (1923), the Académie André Lhote (1923-1926) and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. In 1930, he became acquainted with the art dealer Zborowski, who signed him, gave him a studio and gave the artist name Varlin. After the death of his sponsor, Varlin settled down in Zurich. His sentimentalism, which made him reluctantly to make friends with other artists, is also reflected in the stylistic selfishness of his work: as a special exhibition in the Swiss and European art landscape of the twentieth century, one can not subordinate one of the great art flows. Varlin's w... Read full biography
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Willy Guggenheim lived from 1900 to 1977. He studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule St. Gallen in 1919-1921. Subsequently, he moved to Berlin and became a student of Emil Orlik at the Staatliche Kunstgewerbeschule. From 1923 to 1932 he lived in Paris where he attended the Académie Julian (1923), the Académie André Lhote (1923-1926) and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière.
In 1930, he became acquainted with the art dealer Zborowski, who signed him, gave him a studio and gave the artist name Varlin. After the death of his sponsor, Varlin settled down in Zurich. His sentimentalism, which made him reluctantly to make friends with other artists, is also reflected in the stylistic selfishness of his work: as a spe...But wait, there's more...
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