Albert Steiner

Albert Steiner (1877-1965) is one of the outstanding Swiss photographers of the 20th century. His landscape photographs from the Engadine, where he lived and worked for 46 years, are unique even in international comparison. They have significantly shaped the perception of Switzerland as an unspoilt Alpine country of paradisiacal beauty. Inspired by painters such as Giovanni Segantini and Ferdinand Hodler, Steiner created pictures that are the expression of a deep reverence for nature, a tireless search for timeless beauty and metaphysical truth. His carefully constructed compositions, flooded with light, impressively express the experience of human nothingness in the face of the grandeur and sublimity of the mountain world. Surprisingly, however, Steiner’s work has not received the appreciation it deserves to this day (source: Fotostiftung Schweiz).

Posters by Albert Steiner