With surreal arrangements, Swiss artist Ricco Wassmer (born Erich Hans Wassmer, 1915-1972) created a unique body of work that lies between naive painting, new objectivity, and magical realism. His career is closely intertwined with the heroic years of Bernese art, yet from the beginning, he was a boundary-crosser and outsider, expressing himself through enigmatic images. As a self-taught artist, he chose figurative conceptual art, using allegorical compositions to explore his existential questions. The lost paradise of childhood, slender boys, sailor motifs, sailing ships, still lifes, homages, and a longing for distant places are the central themes of his oeuvre. On the occasion of Ricco Wassmer's 100th birthday, this extensively annotated catalog raisonné is published, featuring a richly illustrated biography and introductory essays. Many of the approximately 5...