Arnold Brügger (1888–1975) was a

Swiss Swiss most commonly refers to: * the adjectival form of Switzerland * Swiss people Swiss may also refer to: Places * Swiss, Missouri * Swiss, North Carolina * Swiss, West Virginia * Swiss, Wisconsin Other uses * Swiss Café, an old café located ...

painter Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...

. He painted in the styles of

Cubism Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement which began in Paris. It revolutionized painting and the visual arts, and sparked artistic innovations in music, ballet, literature, and architecture. Cubist subjects are analyzed, broke ...

Futurism Futurism ( ) was an Art movement, artistic and social movement that originated in Italy, and to a lesser extent in other countries, in the early 20th century. It emphasized dynamism, speed, technology, youth, violence, and objects such as the ...

, and

Expressionism 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 ...

. Brügger was born in

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, in the

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. He attended the Applied Arts College in Bern, where he befriended Fritz Baumann. In 1913, the two lived together in the Alps where they painted landscapes together until the beginning of the

First World War World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War I, Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Fighting to ...

. Brügger was a founding member of the ''Neue Leben'' artist group, along with Fritz Baumann, Otto Morach,

Niklaus Stoecklin Niklaus Stoecklin (19 April 1896 – 1 December 1982) was a Switzerland, Swiss painter and graphic artist. He is regarded as a Swiss exponent of New Objectivity (''Neue Sachlichkeit'') and Magic realism, Magic Realism, and at least with his earl ...

, and Alexander Zschokke.

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of Arnold Brügger's paintings * * 20th-century Swiss painters Swiss male painters 1888 births 1975 deaths 20th-century Swiss male artists {{Switzerland-painter-stub