Prolific Swiss artist Hans Erni dies at 106
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BERLIN (AP) — Swiss artist Hans Erni, whose prolific work ranged from tiny postage stamps to enormous frescoes, has died, his daughter said Sunday. He was 106.
Erni's daughter, artist Simone Fornara-Erni, announced on her Facebook page that he "passed away peacefully" on Saturday.
Erni produced hundreds of paintings, sculptures, lithographs, engravings, etchings and ceramics. He kept up a punishing work schedule deep into old age, completing a series of paintings for the International Olympic Committee in his 80s and painting a fresco at a church in Saint-Paul-de-Vence in southern France, where he had a vacation home.
Born Feb. 21, 1909, in Lucerne, Erni studied art in Paris and Berlin. He was strongly influenced in his early days by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, but his abstract era ended with his first public success, a huge mural titled "Switzerland, Vacation Land of the People" commissioned for the 1939 national exhibition in Zurich.
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FILE - In this June 14, 2011 file picture Swiss artist Hans Erni sits in his atelier in Lucerne, Switzerland, Prominent Swiss artist Hans Erni, whose prolific work ranged from tiny postage stamps to enormous frescoes, has died. He was 106. Erni{2019}s daughter, artist Simone Fornara-Erni, announced on her Facebook page that he died Saturday March 21, 2015. (AP Photo/Keystone,Alessandro Della Bella,file)
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