Johanna Spyri (1827) wrote the children's book: Heidi
born as Johanna Heusser in a small village called Hirzel, some 25 km southeast of Zurich, as the daughter of a country doctor. She died in Zurich on July 7, 1901.
Johanna Spyri's story of Heidi, the girl from the Alps, became a world-wide success story towards the end of the 19th century and children still like it today. Heidi is by far the most popular work of Swiss literature and has been translated from German into 50 languages, been filmed more than a dozen times, and more than 50 million copies of Heidi books have been sold world-wide
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Charles Kingsley, English novelist, poet and clergyman (1819; d.1875), author of the well-known children's story The Water Babies (1863), and one of the few clergymen of his time to accept Darwin's theory of evolution.Egon Schiele Austrian painter, graphic artist.
Egon Schiele est né en 1890 à Tulln, dans une petite ville proche de Vienne en Autriche. Dès l'enfance il exprime un réel talent pour le dessin. Son père, qui exerce le métier de chef de gare l'encourage dans cette voie, mais atteint
d'une maladie mentale son père meurt en 1905.Austrian expressionist artist Egon Leo Adolf Schiele, b. June 12, 1890, d. Oct. 31, 1918, was at odds with art critics and society for most of his brief life. Even more than Gustav Klimt, Schiele made eroticism one of his major themes and was briefly imprisoned for obscenity in 1912. His treatment of the nude figure suggests a lonely, tormented spirit haunted rather than fulfilled by sexuality. At first strongly influenced by Klimt, whom he met in 1907, Schiele soon achieved an independent anticlassical style wherein his jagged lines arose more from psychological and spiritual feeling than from aesthetic considerations.
