In a recent visit to Chicago’s Art Institute, I saw these works through a door and knew exactly who had painted them. They reminded me of the work of Ferdinand Hodler that I had first seen in the Zürich Kunsthaus. They are indeed, Hodler’s paintings.
These works are in the new (2009) modern wing of the Art Institute.
Switzerland is also represented here with a few of Alberto Giacometti’s human figures.
The time has come for this blog to rest. Although I will not be posting regularly, sometimes a post will present itself to me. I plan to see more Niki de Saint Phalle art in San Diego. Perhaps I will come across a photo as I troll through my archive that needs to be shown. Any journeys to foreign lands will end up in posts here.
Until those times, I will leave these two photos.
A sunset over my adopted city.
And an Auf Wiedersehen (literally until we see each other again) from the air.
I know that a number of you already subscribe to my California blog. In case you don’t, and you’d like to take a look-see, it’s called claremontography. I post on Mondays and Thursdays there.
I simply like this photo. I happened to catch a moment when almost nobody was on the street. The yellow building is home to Schipfe 33, a furniture maker. The road on the right leads to the Lindenhof.
Last November I blogged about a day-trip to the Lindt Home of Chocolate. To make the experience even more fun, we took a boat back to Zürich on Lake Zürich. The bus ride there is only 15 minutes. The boat ride back is longer, but on a clear day in November, these are the views looking south.
Sigh.
So, we lived on Hochstrasse this year in university housing. The building itself was nothing worth noting (although I did show some photos of our decorating endeavors).
After we had lived there for 9 months, my daughter and son-in-law came for a visit and pointed out this detail that we had not noticed.
It holds open the shutters! Look very closely, and you will see them at the bottom of an open shutter. (You can see that our building is in need of a paint job.)
Fun fact. A recent book called The Ministry for the Future takes place in Switzerland, in Zürich, and several of the buildings mentioned are on Hochstrasse!
Although I have already written a few blog posts about the Zürich Opera House (including a tour I took in 2015), I wanted a post to show this photo I took one cold morning.
I posted photos of this beautiful building here. At the end of the post I said I should come back later for more photos.
Well, I did. Here are two from the main entrance. Rare moments when nobody was walking through.
Looking through older posts here, I don’t think I’ve put out any photos of the main building (Hauptgebäude) of the ETH. This year I did not take any photos of the exterior, as there were construction fences up the entire year. But the inside warranted some shots.
Here is the magnificent main hall.
The addition on the back side merges old and new architectural styles.
Typical sculptural artwork.
The Thomas Mann Archive takes up several rooms. Here is a recreation of his study. The website says that this archive contains his “literary remains.” An interesting translation.
More photos at glampinginswitzerland’s Instagram.
I often noticed rows of trees in straight lines while riding throughout Switzerland on trains. Here are some shots.
This one is not taken from a train, but these trees are near the top of Zürichberg. It may be that they are starting to turn colors again.
These beauties can be seen when you ride to Stein am Rhein and stop in the town of Thalheim. I wanted to go back in the spring and summer, but didn’t make it. Next time!
Here are some trees on our hike to Tüfelsschlucht. I already posted this photo in a previous post, but I don’t mind looking at it again.
More photos of trees in lines at glampinginswitzerland’s Instagram.
Here are some sights that I have not seen since our return to the States.
Parking on the sidewalks. (BTW, we drank plenty of Stoll Coffee.)
These twig brooms. Like from a Fairy Tale or Medieval times.
Birth announcements on the houses/apartments of newborns. They seem to stay up for several years.
This one was on our street, although I never met Matteo.
Some twins. They will be three in November.
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