Han Coray, the collector that made the impossible possible
History of the first collector of African art in Switzerland, a man called Han Coray (1880-1974) but also known as Karl Heinrich Ulrich Anton Coray, Han Coray-Stoop and Heinrich Corray. Prototype [...]
Fabergé eggs: the great jewlery at the Tsar court
Between 1885 and 1917, Karl Fabergé realized more than fifty masterpieces of jewelry best known as Fabergé Eggs: unique jewels created for the Russian Romanov dynasty as symbol of the last [...]
The Monuments Men: the guardian angels of art
What does a Caravaggio’s portrait and an oil by Kokoshka have in common? And a bust by Rodin with a Veronese’s Virgin with Child? What ties a painting by Emil Nolde to a Memling’s Flemish canvas? [...]
A brief history of enameling
Origins Around 1600 BC, in Mycenae and Cyprus some artisans of glass and metal discovered a material similar to the stone, capable to melt on the surface of gold, silver, bronze and copper and to [...]
Enameling: etymology and technique
Originated by the populations of the Mediterranean over three millennia ago in order to add color to precious metals, enameling is a decorative technique that strongly joins a vitreous compound [...]
Aimé Maeght, the great patron of the fine art
Aimé Maeght can be considered a homo faber fortunae suae: he started from scratch in the first half of the XX century, and became one of the most important figures of the postwar French culture, [...]
Bildnis Max Haufler: the art of portrait, according to Camenisch
Origin of the portrait Max Haufler, before establishing himself as a film actor and director, he devoted himself to painting and was a pupil of the expressionist Paul Camenisch, together with he [...]
A great success for Artrust’s inaugural vernissage
We would like to thank More than 100 people who attended the vernissage of the exhibition “Gen Paul, retrospective of an expressionist from Montmartre”. The first event took place in the [...]