Christian
Baumgartner
25.8.1855 Jegenstorf (BE) - 3.12.1942 Bern
Summer Landscape by a Lake
Christian Baumgartner was a watercolorist with
an extraordinary gift for capturing the special
light of the Swiss countryside. Many of his
landscapes depict the countryside along the
banks of the Aare river in his native Canton
of Bern.
Beginning in 1900, Baumgartner taught at the
Kunstschule Bern (Art School of Bern). In the
early years of the century he was part of a
group of talented landscape artists who were
dubbed "Die Stillen im Lande" - The
Quiet ones of the Country."
He is listed in the Benezit and other major
art dictionaries.
More works by Baumgartner
References: The Biographic Dictionary of Swiss
Artists
L'Art pour L'Aar - L'Art bernois au XXe Siecle
(Bern 1984)
