New book about Albert Anker

Everyone knows the painter Albert Anker from Seeland – as the artistic protagonist of an idyllic, Swiss-rural self-image. Zurich filmmaker Heinz Bütler frees the national artist from these restraints and now also reveals in the book that he is more than an adept of an ideal world. He shows and tells from very different perspectives what the painter can still mean to us today.

Heinz Bütler has been a producer and author of documentaries, essays and feature films since 1980, mainly with reference to art, literature, photography and design, and has won several awards.

Heinz Bütler: “Lebt Anker noch?”, Schwabe-Verlag, Basel 2023, 448 p.; 339 ill., Fr. 48.-.