Modernités suisses. Gaule Le Nôtre is part of

Le Nôtre is part of the history of French landscape architects as a representative of the disciplinary field in which this training has its origins - the art of gardens - and as the creator of principles of composition so current that they could be considered "universal"

chacune de ces sculptures porte son histoire et impose sa beauté

Louis Chéronnet

mais aussi des portraits

he produced one of the most fascinating works of the 20th century

Modernités suisses. Gaule Le Nôtre is part ofTrained in France, Germany or Italy for some, in connection with the European avant gardes, Swiss artists explore the expressive, symbolic or decorative power of line and color, while focusing on subjects drawn from a Swiss history and national culture in the process of inventing themselves, with the context of the affirmation of the young federal state, created in 1848. These painters and this fertile period of European art remain, however,