Eugenio Schmidhauser: Oltre il Malcantone

The exhibition is the result of lengthy research and cataloguing work on the Schmidhauser archive, deposited by the Brentano-Motta di Brugg family at the State Archive of the Canton of Ticino, which has brought to light a series of previously unpublished, little-known works. As well as offering an overview of the main elements of Eugenio Schmidhauser’s work, for the first time it presents a number of significant artistic prints that the photographer exhibited in important international shows in the early twentieth century. A selection of his best-known images – his famous series of postcards or the illustrations for the 1906 publication Fröhliches Volk im Tessin – is accompanied by a number of previously unexhibited works dedicated to the Appenzell regione, offering a broader view of his tourism-related images. Lastly, there is a special section dedicated to Astano, the village he developed a special bond with, regularly capturing its streets, scenery and people from the beginning of the century until 1950.

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