Forest pond with three bathing women. Corsica, 2002

Painting oil on canvas

Dimensions: 95 x 114 x 4.50 cm

"Abstraction in my painting is ... a new view of nature ... My greatest concern is to achieve a magical effect from the tension between fantasy and reality." To achieve this, Carl Walter Liner pursued both naturalistic-expressive painting and gestural abstraction in his landscape paintings. Over the years, colour became the most important means of expression in his powerful pictorial inventions.

Born in St. Gallen in 1914, Carl Walter Liner grew up in a family of artists. From 1937 to 1939 he studied painting in Paris. He travelled to many countries, mainly in the Mediterranean region, such as France, Italy, Spain and Egypt, where he discovered his love of oil painting. In art history, his turn to informal painting is considered his most significant achievement.