Fribourg, The Old City

Name/Title

Fribourg, The Old City

Entry/Object ID

81-32-246

Type of Print

Etching

Made/Created

Artist

Achener, Maurice

Date made

1909 - 1923

Time Period

20th Century

Edition

Edition Size

50

Edition Number

37

Dimensions

Height

7 in

Width

11-3/4 in

Interpretative Labels

Label

(from 2014.Old Walks and New) Maurice Achener, French, 1881-1963 Fribourg, The Old City, 1909-1923, etching and dry point In the foreground a traveler walks down into the old Swiss city of Fribourg, which is dominated by the tower of a Late Medieval/Gothic church. Achener worked frequently in Switzerland both before and after WWI.