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Send your orders please by email to info@collection-robert.ch or by post to Stiftung Sammlung Robert, Schüsspromenade 26, Postfach, CH-2501 Biel, Switzerland. No dispatch if order under CHF 15.00; price plus post & packaging.

DVDs

Zwischen Himmel und Erde
(Between Heaven and Earth). A short film by Jean-François Amiguet about the close collaboration of the father-and-son painters Léo-Paul and Paul-André Robert. Artistic direction Walter Kohler-Chevalier; camera and lighting Willy Rohrbach; editing Valérie Loiseleux; text Christoph Gallaz; narrator Maurice Aufair; participants Marie-Françoise Robert and André Robert. Production by Canal 1 video productions / Yvan Kohler, Biel, 2005. Original edition French (+ German edition), 19 minutes. Supported by: the Cultural Office of Canton Berne, UBS Jubilee Foundation, Foundation Science and City and  the Foundation of the Robert Collection.

Price CHF 25.00 (Two language editions: German and French in the same DVD).

Books

Die Welt der Vögel. Werke von Léo-Paul und Paul-André Robert (The World of Birds: the works of Léo-Paul and Paul-André Robert). Published 2006 by Benteli Verlag, Berne and Zürich, on behalf of the Foundation of the Robert Collection, Biel. Printed by W. Gassmann AG, Biel. Chapters by Ingrid Ehrensperger, Lucie Girardin-Cestone, Hanspeter Gschwend, Blaise Mulhauser, Nicole Quellet-Soguel, André Robert. Translations by Golnaz Houchidar, Olaf Probst/Hanspeter Gschwend, Hanna Wulf. Two language editions: German and French.  Format 24 x 28 cm, 192 pages, 180 colour illustrations and 30 black-and-white. Number of copies printed 2500 (1700 in German, 800 in French). ISBN 3-7165-1401-2

Price EUR 39.00 or CHF 58.00.

The book illuminates the art of these two naturalists as well as their scientific approach to their theme. It traces the background and emergence of the collaboration between Léo-Paul Robert and his youngest son Paul-André in the painting of birds.  For the first time, it reveals in detail their way of working and the closeness of their cooperation to create an artistic and scientific masterwork covering two generations.

French version: Le monde des oiseaux. Œuvres de Léo-Paul et Paul-André Robert      (ISBM 3-7165-1405-5).

Jonas David Labram: Vom Schönen der Natur. Pflanzen und Insekten(On the Beauty of Nature, Plants and Insects), Catalogue in German of the exhibition at the Museum Neuhaus Biel (9.5.-22.9.2002); edited by Bernhard Echte for the Foundation Collection Robert; texts by Bernhard Echte, Fritz Burckhardt, Gustav Senn und Hermann Geiger; published by Verlag Nimbus, Kunst und Bücher, Wädenswil ZH, 2002.

ISBN 3-907142-10-1.           

Price: CHF 36.-

Philippe Robert. Feuilles d’automne / Herbstblätter (Autumn Leaves), reproduced in smaller format from the first edition of Philippe Robert’s self-publication 1909; here reissued in the “m’n Schriftenreihe” (series of publications) of  Museum Neuhaus Biel, No. 2; revised and edited by Bernhard Echte for the Foundation Collection Robert; translations by Lislott Pfaff and Bernhard Echte; (ISBN 3-9521089-2-8); Biel [1995].          Price : CHF 18.-                            

Blumen im Jura – gemalt von Philippe Robert (Flowers of the Jura region), 151 plates reproduced original size from watercolours by the artist, with texts by Henri Spinner, Philippe Robert and Nicole Galland; published by Editions Gilles Attinger, Hauterive, 1989 (ISBN 2-88256-040-0)

This work of 336 pages comprises a biography of the painter by Marc and Henriette Robert and a previously unpublished manuscript by him on the flora of the Jura, as well as all 150 colour plates from the series “Flowers of the Jura” as he experienced them in 1910.

Each natural-size plate is accompanied by a description by Philippe Robert, Dr Henri Spinner (former professor at the University of Neuchâtel) or Nicole Galland (botanist). The book, format 24 x 30 cm, half-matt 150-gram art-print paper, is hard-bound in linen, with a coloured, laminated dust jacket.

Price CHF 327:00.

French edition: Fleurs du Jura de Philippe Robert (ISBN 2-88256-039-7)                  

Tier und Pflanze im Werk der Malerfamilie Robert / Les animaux et les plantes dans l’œuvre des peintres Robert, (Animals and Plants in the Works of the Robert Family of Painters), Schrift der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft, Biel. Texts by Claude Favarger, Peter Sonderegger, Michel Aragno, Hans Rudolf Pauli, Christophe Dufour und Heinrich Spinner, Biel 1985  [out of print] .                

Brief Guides

NEW: Die Maler Robert als Vorläufer heutiger Ökotheologie (The Painters Robert as Forerunners of Today’s Eco-theology) by Otto Schäfer, commissioner for ethics, Swiss Protestant Church Association (Evangelischer Kirchenbund).

Is Christianity to blame for the ecological crisis?  This accusation is too generalised, because there are impressive examples of Christian belief in, and responsibility towards, Creation. To these examples belong the painters Robert. They transposed the Bible into nature, and nature into the Bible – in a theologically thought-out form. Their original and topical message is aptly highlighted in this richly illustrated brochure.

German and French editions; 28 pages, 15 coloured and 3 black-and-white illustrations, Biel 2008. (ISBN 978-2-8399-0441-4)

Price CHF 10.00.

French edition:  Les peintres Robert, précurseurs de l’écothéologie actuelle.                 

Das Ried und sein Maler, Léo-Paul Robert  (The Ried Homestead and its Painters). Publication accompanying the exhibition „Léo-Paul Robert (1851-1923), the national influence of Ried near  Biel“ (22.3.-24.6.2007); Text and captions by Nicole Quellet-Soguel and Ingrid Ehrensperger, German translation and extended captions by Ingrid Ehrensperger; 16 pages of text and four fold-out panels comprising 15 coloured illustrations.  Biel 2007. (ISBN 3-9522989-6-4)

CHF 6.00.

French edition: Le Ried et son peintre (ISBN 3-9522989-7-2).      

Paul-André Robert, Die Libellen und der Maler (The Dragonflies and their Painter), Publication accompanying the exhibition „Die Libellen und der Maler Paul-André Robert“at the Museum Neuhaus Biel (5.12.2004 – 10.4.2005); 18 pages, 22 illustrations, of which 8 are coloured, Biel 2004. (ISBN 3-9522989-0-5)

Price CHF 6.00.

The Birds and their Painter Léo-Paul Robert, Publication accompanying the exhibition „The World of Birds.  Works by  Léo-Paul und Paul-André Robert“ in Museum Neuhaus Biel (21.5.05- 0.9.2007); chapters by Christine E. Jackson and Ingrid Ehrensperger; translations by Margret Powell-Joss und Jacqueline Gartmann; 16 pages, 4 fold-out plates, in total 12 coloured illustrations; Biel 2005; ISBN 3-9522989-3-X

Price: CHF. 6.-.                                

Also available in a French edition, Les Oiseaux et leur peintre Léo-Paul Robert ISBN 3-9522989-3-X), as well as in a German version, Die Vögel und ihr Maler Léo-Paul Robert. (ISBN 3-9522989-2-1).

Die Raupen und der Maler Léo-Paul Robert (The Caterpillars and the Painter Léo-Paul Robert), text (in German) by Peter Sonderegger, 16 pages, 4 colour-plates, in total 15 coloured illustrations; Biel 2005; ISBN 3-9522989-4-8.                                

Price: CHF 6.-

French edition: Les chenilles et le peintre Léo-Paul Robert (ISBN 3-9522989-5-6)

Postcards

Series published in 2005. 32 postcards, comprising 8 of birds, 8 butterflies, 8 dragonflies, and 8 caterpillars, reproduced from paintings by Léo-Paul and Paul-André Robert.

Price: CHF 38.00 (instead of CHF 48).

Selection of any 12 of the above postcards at the price for 10, namely CHF 15.00.

Double cards of flowers from Philippe Robert’s “Jura- und Alpenblumen”; 5 double cards with envelopes.  Price for the set CHF 15.00 (instead of CHF 17.00).

Double cards of birds by Léo-Paul Robert, 5 double cards with envelopes, various formats.  Price for the set: CHF15.00 (instead of CHF 17.00).

Antiquarian

For sale by a private owner:

Philippe Robert, Feuilles d’automne, published by the artist in 1909, format 37 x 50 cm, 45 pages, 18 plates, hardbound in linen.

This is one of the 20^th century’s most magnificent examples of the art of book production. At the heart of the book are 18 water-colours, which colourfully celebrate the beauty of autumn leaves.  The plates also reveal how the symmetrical basic forms of the leaves can be turned into ornamentation for artistic crafts.  The plates were produced by the most demanding printing process of their era, hence their colours remain fresh and unsurpassed to this day.

Price on request.