Guillaume Bruère

French artist Guillaume Bruère works very fast, with energetic vibrant strokes, and and with an enormous output in short time. The human face and the portrait play a central role in his work. Among Bruère’s favorite places to draw are museum galleries in front of originals of the great masters. He has been seen at the Louvre in Paris, Munich’s Alte Pinakothek, the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin – and in recent years again and again at the Kunsthaus Zürich.

During his visits to the Kunsthaus, Bruère has created some two hundred drawings, nearly forty of them based on a self-portrait by van Gogh alone. He has also been a frequent guest at the nearby Schauspielhaus, the city's major playhouse, to draw during rehearsals. This stunning, large-size volume features the entire body of drawings that Bruère has made in Zurich.