Artwork Title: Gotthardpost

Gotthardpost, 1973

Rudolf Koller

Artwork Title: GotthardpostArtwork Title: Gotthardpost
The Gotthardpost, or The St Gotthard Mailcoach, is one of his most famous paintings. It depicts a mail coach, drawn by white horses, speeding along a mountain road. ...In 1870 Koller began to suffer from a vision impairment that interfered with his work. Nevertheless, in 1873, still at the height of his artistic powers, he secured an assignment from the Swiss Northeastern Railway, to produce a gift for the industrial and railway pioneer Alfred Escher on the occasion of his retirement. Koller chose to allude to the St. Gotthard tunnel project, which Escher had championed, and eventually combined several studies to paint the Gotthardpost, or The Gotthard Mail Coach, showing one of the horse-drawn mail coaches, rendered obsolete by the opening of the tunnel. The painting is recognized as one of the best ever done by a Swiss painter. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Koller]
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