Carl Walter Liner

Carl Walter Liner (17 August 1914 – 19 April 1997) was a Swiss painter. He trained first with his father, Carl August Liner, and later at the École des Beaux-Arts and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris. His work included landscapes, portraits and still lifes, and later developed toward abstraction and non-representational painting.

Biography Carl Walter Liner was born on 17 August 1914 in St. Gallen, and grew up in Appenzell. He was the son of the painter Carl August Liner, who gave him his early artistic training. From the late 1940s, he moved away from the Impressionism associated with his father and turned toward Expressionism and abstract painting, including influences from the Zürich Concrete artists. Liner’s work has been associated with the development of non-representational art in Switzerland, particularly through its connection between landscape and abstraction. By the time of his death, he had produced around 2,500 oil paintings and 4,000 gouaches.

Exhibitions Liner exhibited regularly in Switzerland and abroad during his later career. From 1962 to 1967, he participated in the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles in Paris. In Switzerland, his work was shown at Galerie Iris Wazzau in Davos. In 2014, the centenary exhibition Pendler zwischen den Welten was shown at the Kunsthalle Ziegelhütte in Appenzell.

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