S IL S M US E U M SILS
The mysterious life and death of the extraordinary painter Andrea Robbi (1864–1945).
Born in 1864, Andrea Robbi spent his childhood in Italy, where his parents ran a patisserie. His childhood holidays were spent in Sils. After training as a painter in such cities as Munich, Paris and Rome, he began a promising career – yet a lack of recognition drove this highly sensitive, insecure artist into a deep sense of despair. Aged 34, he ended his career, returned to his mother in Sils and spent the rest of his life in his family home. After his mother died, he lived alone, locking himself in the house and leaving only at night. When the eccentric Robbi died aged 81, his former career as a talented young painter was long forgotten. His work was only rediscovered in the 1980s and can now be seen in the Sils Museum, which also hosts temporary exhibitions on local cultural history.
Sils Museum – Andrea Robbi Foundation Via da Marias 110, 7514 Sils Maria +41 44 242 37 27 andrearobbimuseum.ch 26 — Museum
Image left: © Andrea Robbi Foundation / Image right: © Studio Stefano Graziani and Art Stations Foundation CH, Muzeum Susch
The San Lurench church in Sils Baselgia, oil painting on canvas by Andrea Robbi.