4 Quotes & Sayings By Hans Cloos

Hans Cloos (born January 22, 1875, in Zürich; died December 12, 1956, in Zurich) was a Swiss painter and writer. Cloos studied under Thomas Anschutz and Hans Bürgi at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Zurich. In 1904 he began working as an illustrator for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung and was also a contributor to the Tägliche Rundschau. He was one of the founders of the Blauer Reiter group and his paintings were exhibited at the Wien Secession and the Secession in Munich Read more

He was a member of Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) but left it to join Kandinsky's Der Blaue Vier. He became a founding member of Der Blaue Reiter again in 1932. His work is represented at the Kunsthaus Zürich, The Museum of Modern Art, New York City, and other important collections.

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It was during my enchanted days of travel that the idea came to me, which, through the years, has come into my thoughts again and again and always happily–the idea that geology is the music of the earth. Hans Cloos
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For a billion years the patient earth amassed documents and inscribed them with signs and pictures which lay unnoticed and unused. Today, at last, they are waking up, because man has come to rouse them. Stones have begun to speak, because an ear is there to hear them. Layers become history and, released from the enchanted sleep of eternity, life's motley, never-ending dance rises out of the black depths of the past into the light of the present. . Hans Cloos
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The earth is large and old enough to teach us modesty. Hans Cloos