Paul Camenisch (7 November 1893 – 13 February 1970) was a

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. He was the founding member of the Rot-Blau group and Gruppe 33.

Biography

In 1912–16, he studied architecture at

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Karl Moser Karl Moser (August 10, 1860 – February 28, 1936) was an architect from Switzerland. Between 1887 and 1915 he worked together with Robert Curjel in Karlsruhe, setting up the architecture firm Curjel and Moser. Some of their works are: ...

. He was influenced by the German

expressionist Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it rad ...

painter

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (6 May 1880 – 15 June 1938) was a German expressionist painter and printmaker and one of the founders of the artists group Die Brücke or "The Bridge", a key group leading to the foundation of Expressionism in 20th-centur ...

. In 1924, Camenisch founded the "Rot-Blau" expressionist group with

Albert Müller Albert Müller (29 November 1897 Basel, Switzerland - 14 December 1926) was a Swiss Expressionist painter, glass artist, draftsman, graphic artist and sculptor. Life Müller was born in Basel in 1897. In 1917, he graduated as a glass painter from ...

and

Hermann Scherer Hermann Scherer (8 February 1893– 13 May 1927) was a German-speaking Swiss Expressionist painter and sculptor. Life Hermann Scherer was born in Rümmingen, Baden-Württemberg in 1893. After leaving school in 1907, Scherer began an apprentices ...

. Two of his works are in the

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.Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Lugano: Paul Camenisch
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