User:Renebernard

My name is René Dee and the grandson of Maurice André Kaspar, a Swiss national and prolific water-colourist born in Geneva on the 11th July 1892 and who died in Carouge, in the Canton of Geneva, on the 3rd December 1946.

I am seeking to bring to the attention of all those who love and have an interest in water-colour paintings, his superb work. He trained as an architect at Zurich Polytechnic from 17th October 1910 and gained his Architect's Diploma on the 22nd July 1915. During his lifetime he painted a great variety of subjects in Switzerland, France and Italy. Many of his works have a socially historical significance that has yet to be fully recognised. Outside of a narrow field of afficionados he is not yet well-known, but deserves to be. There are 33 of his paintings of Carouge, Geneva commissioned in the 1930's lodged in the Museum of Carouge.