Ricco Wassmer 1915–1972 

On the occasion of Ricco Wassmer’s centenary birthday (whose real name was Erich Hans Wassmer, 1915–1972), the Kunstmuseum Bern is mounting a comprehensive retrospective for this Swiss painter. The arrangements in his paintings are surreal in appearance; by conflating naive painting, new objectivity, and magic realism he produced a highly unique oeuvre. The themes that were important to the artist were loss of the blissfulness of childhood, slender youths, subject matter involving sailors, sailing ships, still lifes, homages, and the yearning for distant lands.

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