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Antique Prints Portraits Swiss Personalities Switzerland 

Johann Jacob Wehrli – Swiss Teacher, Director of School for the Poor at Hofwil

April 13, 2018April 14, 2018 WCL 1079 Views pedagogy, portrait, school, Swiss personality, Swiss portrait, teachers, teaching

Johann Jacob Wehrli (1790 Thurgau – 1855 Andwil) Famous socially engaged Swiss teacher who served as the director of the

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Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi – Woodblock Print by Leopold Waechtler

April 13, 2018April 14, 2018 WCL 1360 Views Pestalozzi, portrait, Swiss personality, Swiss portrait

Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi surrounded by Children Two color woodblock engraving of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi by the German artist Leopold Wächtler (1896

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Albert Gallatin – The Genevan Who Became A Famous American Statesman

April 13, 2018April 14, 2018 WCL 898 Views portrait, Swiss personality, Swiss portrait

Albert Gallatin Genevan Who Became the Longest Serving Secretary of the Treasury in U.S. History Albert Gallatin (1761-1849) was born

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Guillaume-Henri Dufour (General Dufour) – First President of the ICRC

April 13, 2018May 24, 2020 WCL 1990 Views portrait, Swiss personality, Swiss portrait

Guillaume-Henri Dufour (September 15, 1787 – July 14, 1875) Famous Swiss General and topographer who after serving as the head

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Portrait of Johannes Schulthess, Zurich Theologian and Publisher

April 13, 2018April 14, 2018 WCL 869 Views portrait, Schulthess, Swiss personality, Swiss portrait

Portrait of Johannes Schulthess Theologian and Publisher (1744-1810) Lithograph Texts: ” Dem Verfechter des Lichts, Johannes Schulthess Dr. Theol. –

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Portrait of Leonhard Holzhalf (1553-1617) Zurich Buergermeister and Businessman

April 13, 2018April 14, 2018 WCL 783 Views portrait, Swiss personality, Swiss portrait

1679 Portrait of Leonhard Holzhalb by Conrad Meyer Original Copperplate Engraving Leonhard Holzhalb (1553-1617) was a Zürich Businessman who became

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17th Century French Allegorical Engraving – French Jansenists and Rome
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17th Century French Allegorical Engraving – French Jansenists and Rome

December 25, 2020December 25, 2020 WCL

Fascinating 17th Century French engraving shows time and celestial vertue (Vertu Celeste) chasing away fraud, tyranny and discord aided by

17th Century Engraving from a Theologian’s Response to writings by Huguenot Leader Philippe de Mornay
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17th Century Engraving from a Theologian’s Response to writings by Huguenot Leader Philippe de Mornay

December 24, 2020December 25, 2020 WCL
Walter Wegmüller – Zilelete 1972
20th Century Art Brut / Outsider Bedroom Fantastic Fine Art Mixed-Media Swiss 

Walter Wegmüller – Zilelete 1972

November 29, 2020November 29, 2020 WCL

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