Ursus Wehrli (born 1969) is a Swiss comedian and artist. He makes books in which he humorously "tidies up" works of art. [1] [2] [3]
In 2012, he designed a stamp for the Swiss Post. [4] [5]
Friedrich Stowasser, better known by his pseudonym Friedensreich Regentag Dunkelbunt Hundertwasser, was an Austrian visual artist and architect who also worked in the field of environmental protection.
Gottfried Semper was a German architect, art critic, and professor of architecture who designed and built the Semper Opera House in Dresden between 1838 and 1841. In 1849 he took part in the May Uprising in Dresden and was put on the government's wanted list. He fled first to Zürich and later to London. He returned to Germany after the 1862 amnesty granted to the revolutionaries.
Hans Erni was a Swiss graphic designer, painter, illustrator, engraver and sculptor.
Max Bill was a Swiss architect, artist, painter, typeface designer, industrial designer and graphic designer.
Thomas Hirschhorn is a Swiss artist who lives and works in Paris.
Olaf Breuning is a Swiss-born artist, born in Schaffhausen, who lives in New York City.
Viktor Giacobbo is a Swiss writer, comedian and actor.
Boris Andreyevich Mikhailov or Borys Andriyovych Mykhailov is a Soviet and Ukrainian photographer. He has been awarded the Hasselblad Award and the Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize.
Bruno Weber was a Swiss artist and architect, specializing in fantastic realism.
Stefan Banz was an artist and curator.
Karim Noureldin is a Swiss visual artist.
Jürg Amann was a Swiss author and dramatist. He has written radio plays, a biography of Robert Walser, and other works.
Denis Simonet a.k.a. "SciFi" from Ipsach is a Swiss politician, and was the first president of the Pirate Party Switzerland (PPS). In April 2012 he was elected as a board member of Pirate Parties International. He also is the chairman of the court of arbitration of PPS and the spokesman of his party.
Philipp Tingler is a Swiss and German writer, journalist, economist and philosopher. His literary and essayistic work is an ironic comedy of manners, focused on minds and styles in the upper realms of society.
Nadja Sieger is a Swiss comedian, singer, writer, actress and producer, better known as Nadeschkin of the comedian duo Ursus & Nadeschkin.
Cathérine Hug is a Swiss art historian and curator.
Frantiček Klossner is a Swiss artist based in Bern, known for creating video art, installations, performance, drawings and visual poetry.
Ata Bozaci is a Swiss graphic designer, illustrator and artist. His work encompasses drawing, painting, digital graphics, large-scale wallpainting and modular sculpture. From 1990 to 2012 his principle creative output was graffiti writing; he is known for graffiti works under the pseudonym Toast. People – man – are central to his recent digital works.
Allison Hazel Brugger is a Swiss-American slam poet, comedian, cabaret artist and television presenter.
Niklaus Stoecklin was a Swiss painter and graphic artist. He is regarded as a Swiss exponent of New Objectivity and Magic Realism, and at least with his early works numbers among their international co-founders. He was also a poster designer of international renown.