page_title: Charles Wyrsch
section_title: Lucerne
hierarchical_section_title: Charles Wyrsch / Personal life / Lucerne
caption_attribution_description: English: Red is an abstract painting that Charles Wyrsch has created 1970-1971 at his atelier in Lucerne
context_page_description: Charles Wyrsch was a Swiss contemporary artist and painter.
context_section_description: In 1961, he moved with his family to Lucerne. In the monograph by Markus Brischgi (1990), he says: "... The objectivity had driven me into a corner; I destroyed many works and painted with a palette knife in a true color turmoil new pictures ... ". Up to this point, he was committed to the real matter and traditional painting. The affinity for abstraction is a key moment in his life, acting on his later representational paintings.
  During this time he also abstracted images of Christ. The Passion theme was deepened by the dramatic experience of the death of his three-year-old little daughter who died on a Good Friday. Under this impression he painted his most famous work, the "Stations of the Cross", 1966, for the Pius Church in Meggen.
caption: Red is an abstract painting that Charles Wyrsch has created 1970–1971 at his atelier in Lucerne