Plinio Colombi

Plinio Colombi was born in 1873 in Ravecchia and died in 1951 in Spiez. After starting to study architecture in Winterthur, he changed to applied arts. After a stay in Paris in 1897, he settled in Berne and worked as a freelance artist from 1899. He admired Arnold Böcklin and especially Ferdinand Hodler. Colombi specialised in mountain and winter landscapes and was particularly inspired by the Bernese Alps. His light, refined, linear and ornamental naturalism brought him to compete with printing techniques and advertising posters in terms of faithfulness to nature. He took part in the most important national art events and had some contact to the art scene in Ticino.

Posters by Plinio Colombi