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Wolfgang Straub (born 1969, in Waiblingen [1] ) is a Swiss lawyer and photographer.
His series of still lifes ‘Le dictionnaire des analphabètes’ deal with visual evidence of the paradoxical. [2]
His 'Enchanted Gardens' series deals with conveying an emotional content by means of altering forms of expression. [3] [4] [5]
Straub's works are present in several public and private collections.
Enchanted Gardens, Wyss Bern/Museum Franz Gertsch Burgdorf 2010, ISBN 978-3-033-02263-8 and ISBN 978-3-7285-2010-4
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, baptised as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition resulted in more than 800 works of virtually every genre of his time. Many of these compositions are acknowledged as pinnacles of the symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral repertoire. Mozart is widely regarded as among the greatest composers in the history of Western music, with his music admired for its "melodic beauty, its formal elegance and its richness of harmony and texture".
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Events from the year 1909 in art.
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