AUSSTELLUNG «BEATRICE GUYER, DIE BERGMALERIN»

Beatrice Guyer (1920 Zurich – 2005 Hombrechtikon ZH). The artist's work is shaped by her love of nature and the landscape. She was particularly fond of the wild mountain beauty of the Upper Engadine and Bregaglia, but also Provence and Tuscany. For more than forty years, she spent the summer months high above Lake Sils in Grevasalvas and Blaunca, in the mountain pasture of a mountain farming family from Soglio. Here and there she dealt with the contrasting impressions of the area. The result was powerful images, painterly realizations of light and shadow, cold and warm color tones, soft and rugged forms, just as nature presented itself to it. Her technique was almost always gouache; Layer by layer, she built up her paintings, restlessly searching for optimal harmony. Be it landscapes, floral still lifes or figurines; The artist always limited herself to the essentials of form and colour and thus created her expressive works. Excerpt from a letter: "The mountain landscape lay there as if enchanted, enchanted, unreal and I, miserable, tiny sheep, could not resist trying to paint such a picture. The lakes were no longer of the bright, simple blue as a reflection of the blue sky, but there was a purple, also a very little hard green mixed in, and the blue was constantly changing, playing between the secondary colors and was unfathomable, dreamlike. The mountains were shrouded in delicate purple and ochre yellow and the shadows became enchanted blue. Over the mountains, ivory clouds floated in a pale bluish-greenish sky....."