Artist Spotlight: Elisar von Kupffer's Gay Eden

[Call Me Wesley]

1. Shame on me I never visited the museum,

since it's in my neighborhood, but I also haven't visited yet the grave of Erich Maria Remarque and Paulette Goddard, as well as the other places which were once very vibrant in Locarno/Ascona around 1900. It was an exile for a variety of artists and others. Cultural life was rich within them, and social life very liberal. There was a huge nudist colony, too.

Given that this happened in a very rural, very catholic environment, they were not very welcomed by the natives, but it made the place what it is today and brought a lot of money to a then rather poor state, where the natives were mostly small farmers.

Thanks for posting that!