Sigismund Righini – Im Bann der Farbe

The Zurich painter and art politician Sigismund Righini (1870-1937), a contemporary of Cuno Amiet (1868-1961), Hans Emmenegger (1866-1940) and Giovanni Giacometti (1868-1933), provides a pictorial work, which in the academic tradition has started and developed along the figurative avant-garde in France and Switzerland provides stunning coloration. “C’est de couleur et du luminosité que je me préoccupe avant tout sans pourtant négliger la forme; c’est la direction de mon talent, donc pas chose voulue “wrote Righini 1912. With its emphasis on Flächen¬charakters the image and increasing the colors to the Flash, he is one of the great colorists of Switzerland. As such, the exhibition also want to introduce him.

Following on from the last major monographic exhibition in winter 2003/2004 at the Kunstmuseum Solothurn, will contribute to this very important for the Swiss art history painter and subject him to a reassessment of the Museum Oskar Reinhart.