A herd of cows climbs up winding paths to the alpine hut, a heart is emblazoned in the middle, edelweiss and gentians frame the black and white, symmetrical picture. This idyll is considered a typical Swiss silhouette. The alpine world is just one of many motifs that farmers and nuns, painters and bourgeois daughters created with white, black and colored paper from the 17th century onwards. In the city and in the country, they cut filigree ornaments with scissors and knives, they studied nature, silhouetted their families and friends and told tragic or happy stories. Paper cutting fascinates more people than ever before. Women and men cut traditional motifs or deal with current topics. They surprise visitors to popular silhouette exhibitions with creative and technical developments. In short, informative texts, the author offers a cross-section of the history of the development of Swiss paper cutting and illustrates this with paper cuts and collages from museums and private collections as well as with works by today’s scissor cutters and paper cutters.

• Isbn 978-3-258-07819-9
• Ean 9783258078199
• Author Felicitas Oehler
• Editor Haupt Verlag
• Language de_CH