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Le Corbusier and Switzerland

La Chaud-de-Fonds, Maison blanche, 1912. Photo: Wikipedia.

22 February 2019

The career of one of Switzerland’s most famous architects started with training at the School of Art in La Chaud-de-Fonds. Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, who adopted the pseudonym Le Corbusier in 1920, was born on 6 October 1887 in la-Chaud-de-Fonds. After a career as an architect, urban planner, painter, furniture designer, sculptor, and theoretican (he also wrote … Read more » “Le Corbusier and Switzerland”

The loyalty and courage of the Swiss

Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844, the Lion Monument, 1821. Photo: TES.

5 October 2018

The Lion Monument was inaugurated on 10 August 1821, 29 years after the attack on the Tuilerien. One of the few surviving guardsmen was Carl Pfyffer von Altishofen, an officer in the Swiss Guard Regiment of King Louis XVI. On August 10, 1792 he was on leaf in Switzerland, otherwise he had shared the fate … Read more » “The loyalty and courage of the Swiss”

The Queen in Switzerland

The exhibition about the Queen´s Visit. Photo: Historical Museum Luzern

3 October 2018

2018 marks the 150th anniversary of Queen Victoria’s visit to Switzerland. The British Queen spent five weeks in Switzerland from 7 August to 9 September 1868. After the death of her husband Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in 1861, the queen had largely withdrawn from public life and could no longer escape her grief. She also … Read more » “The Queen in Switzerland”