The photographic portrait collection of the Prints and Drawings Department of the Swiss National Library contains portraits of important personalities of social, cultural and artistic life in Switzerland and abroad.
Author photographs by renowned photographers such as Paul Bonzon (Lausanne, 1916/17), Albert Teichmann (Basel, c. 1914-18), Fred Boissonnas (Geneva, c. 1918), Madame d'Ora (Vienna, c. 1920), Gaston de Jongh (Lausanne, c. 1930), Willy Maywald (Berlin, 1948), Albert Renger-Patzsch (Essen, c. 1940), Giro Annen (Bern, 1990ff. ), Laurence Bonvin (Geneva, 2004), Clair Cuti (Geneva, 2003), Andri Pol (Basel, 2003), Gian Paolo Minelli (Chiasso, 2003), Florio Pünter (St. Moritz, 2003), Christian Scholz (Zurich, 2003), Marco Schibig (Bern, 2003), Nicole Zachmann (Zurich, 2003)
Edited by Susanne Bieri and Mechthild Heuser
Prints and Drawings Department Swiss National Library Bern (CH)
255 pages, softcover
Basel: Schwabe Verlag
Currently not available
