Rodolphe Töpffer
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Rodolphe Töpffer was a Swiss teacher, author, painter, cartoonist, and caricaturist. He is best known for his illustrated books, which are possibly the earliest European comics. He is known as the fat
Töpffer Monument in Geneva
Wolfgang-Adam Töpffer
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Wolfgang-Adam Töpffer, also Adam-Wolfgang or simply Adam Töpffer, was a Swiss painter who specialized in landscapes and watercolors. His son was the illustrator and cartoonist, Rodolphe Töpffer, who i
Rodolphe Töpffer
…the French Republican calendar at ten hours after noon (« dix heures après midi »), that is on 31 January 1799, in Geneva, Léman, France. His father Wolfgang-Adam Töpffer was a painter and occasional caricaturist. His grandfather, Georg-Christoph, a master tailor, had come from Franconia and held a sock factory in Geneva…
Self-portrait (1832)
The Broken Necklace
View of Mont Blanc from Geneva