Bruno Meier  1905 – 1967

The Blue Leaves (Die Blauen Blätter)

In Bruno Meier’s “Blue Leaves“ the Foundation Collection Robert holds paintings by a further artist who in a certain sense carried on the work of the artists Robert. Delicately and elegantly, Bruno Meier portrays the plants in their variations and charms. Conceived as representations of individual objects, the pictures show the fascinations of forms and colours that emanate from the aesthetics of plants. What you can discern in these pieces – as in the art of the Roberts – is the all-embracing beauty of nature and the artist’s observant and admiring eye for the scarcely heeded simple forms.

Bruno Meier originally created the “Blue Leaves” as small gifts and tokens of affection for his wife Alice, who earned their meagre livelihood by giving language lessons. So these pictures’ gentleness and attentiveness is an allegory of love as a “fragile plant”.