List of personalities from Ascona

This list contains personalities born in Ascona and those who had their sphere of activity in Ascona without having been born there. The list does not claim to be complete.

Personalities

Painter, sculptor, ceramic worker, graphic artist, photographer, antiquarian, art dealer

• Antonio da Tradate (* around 1450 in Tradate ?; † after 1510 Locarno ?), Painter, wall painter also active in Locarno
• Giovanni Antonio de Lagaia (* around 1485, † after 1519), painter. He painted in the church of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Ascona.

Christian Rohlfs, photo portrait of Hugo Erfurth (1929)

Max Kruse, 1899

Wassily Kandinsky, around 1913

Fanny Countess zu Reventlow, around 1900

Karl Hofer, photographed by Hugo Erfurth .

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (before 1920)

Gaetano Matteo Pisoni

Carl Weidemeyer, around 1912

Karl Gräser in his natural chair

Eduard von der Heydt, photo taken around 1929

• Abbondio family of artists
  • Giovanni Abbondio (* 15th century), Bishop of Riga
  • Antonio Abbondi called Scarpagnino (* around 1470 in Ascona? † November 26, 1549 in Venice ), builder and sculptor
  • Marco Abbondi (* around 1510 in Ascona?; † 1578 in Venice ), builder and sculptor
  • Antonio Abondio called l'Ascona (* around 1500 in Ascona, † after 1568), sculptor
  • Antonio Abondio (the younger) (1538–1591), sculptor, sculptor, coin manufacturer
  • Alessandro Abondio (* around 1575 in Vienna; † 1648 in Munich  ?), Medalist, coin manufacturer
  • Fiorenzo Abbondio (1892–1980), sculptor
  • Valerio Abbondio (1891–1958), lecturer and poet

• Serodine family of artists
  • Cristoforo Serodine (* around 1555 in Ascona; † after 1633 in Rome?), Architect, painter, foreman and building contractor, active in Rome after 1590
  • Giovanni Battista Serodine (* 1587 in Ascona; † around 1626 there?), Son of Christoforo, sculptor, plasterer
  • Giovanni Serodine (1600–1630 ibid), plasterer, painter
  • Bernardino Serodine (* around 1610 in Ascona; † after 1650 there?), Painter and plasterer

Helmut Zacharias, 1965

Ferdinand von Wrangell (1897)

Anna Fischer-Dückelmann

Arnold Ehret around 1922

Ita Wegman (1899)

Walter Rudolf Hess

Fritz Kahn

• Artist family Pisoni
  • Paolo Antonio Pisoni (* around 1635 in Ascona; † after 1711 ibid), wood carver active in the parish churches of Biasca , Quinto and Locarno
  • Gaetano Matteo Pisoni (* 1713 in Ascona; † 1782 there), architect
  • Paolo Pisoni (born November 7, 1738 in Ascona; † November 7, 1804 in Solothurn ), architect

• Artist family Pancaldi
  • Giuseppe Maria Pancaldi (* 1700 in Ascona; † 1778 ibid), plasterer
  • Carlo Giuseppe Pancaldi (* 1737 in Ascona; † 1785 ibid), son of Giuseppe Maria, plasterer
  • Pietro Francesco Pancaldi called Mola (1739–1783), church painter
  • Francesco Pancaldi (born August 9, 1829 in Ascona, † around 1869 in Milan ), sculptor

Bonstetten

Kropotkin, photo taken by Nadar around 1900.

Gabriele Reuter recorded in Munich, 1896

Max Nettlau

Stefan George
portrait by Reinhold Lepsius

Else pupil

Karl Wolfskehl (1935)

Erich Mühsam (1928, shortly before his 50th birthday)

• Christian Rohlfs (1849–1938), German modern painter
• Max Kruse , (1854–1942), sculptor
• Marianne von Werefkin (1860–1938), painter
• Clara Grosch (1863–1932 in Locarno), painter
• Alexej von Jawlensky (1865–1941), painter
• Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) Russian painter, graphic artist and art theorist
• Maria "Mia" Hesse-Bernoulli (* 1868 in Basel, † 1963 in Bern ), photographer, first wife of the writer Hermann Hesse
• Fanny zu Reventlow (1871–1918 in Locarno), writer, translator, painter
• Arthur Segal (1875–1944), Romanian painter and sculptor
• Elisabeth "Elly" Lenz (1874–1945), painter and.
• Alexander Wilhelm de Beauclair (1877–1962), painter
• Karl Hofer (1878–1955), German painter
• Walter Helbig (1878–1968), painter, graphic artist, wood cutter
• Adolf Stocksmayr (1879–1964), artist, inventor.
• Louis Moilliet (1880–1962), Swiss artist, painter and glass painter
• Helmuth Viking Eggeling (born October 21, 1880 in Lund , † May 19, 1925 in Berlin), Swedish painter, Dadaist and experimental filmmaker
• Ernst Frick (painter) (1881–1956), painter
• Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn (1881–1962), a Dutch artist, [1] theosophist and founder of the Eranos Society, who spent most of her life in Switzerland.
• Otto Lüssi (born January 14, 1883 in Zurich; † June 6, 1942 in Ascona), graphic artist, draftsman and painter
• Albert Kohler (born November 18, 1883 in Basel, † December 7, 1946 in Ascona), painter, sculptor, illustrator
• Robert Genin (born August 11, 1884 in Wisokoje near Klimowitschy in the Mogilev region , † August 16, 1941 in Moscow ), painter, graphic artist, illustrator and writer, he lives and created in Ascona.
• Otto van Rees (* 1884 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † 1957 in Utrecht ), painter and Bauhaus architect.
• Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1884–1976), German painter, graphic artist, sculptor
• Gordon Mallet McCouch (* 1885 in Philadelphia , USA ; † 1956 in Locarno), American painter lived in Ascona.
• Margarethe Marianne Fellerer (born January 6, 1885 in Linz , † April 2, 1961 in Arlesheim ), photographer
• Artur Heye (born November 4, 1885 in Leipzig , † November 1, 1947 in Ascona), German photographer, adventurer, world traveler, non-commissioned officer in the protection force in German East Africa and writer.
• Carl Eugen Keel (1885–1961), expressionist wood cutter and painter
• Albert E. Henselmann (1890–1974), painter and sculptor
• Hans Kaspar Schwarz (1891–1966), painter, sculptor, author.
• Ernst Thommen (born July 14, 1891 in Giebenach , † January 26, 1976 in Ascona), painter
• Ignaz Epper (1892–1969), painter, graphic artist, wood carver
• Julius Bissier (1893–1965), painter
• Arthur Bryks (* 1894), painter and book illustrator
• Heinrich Maria Davringhausen (1894–1970), sculptor and painter
• Wladimir Rosenbaum (1894–1984), lawyer, antiquarian, art dealer
• Johann Robert Schürch (1895–1941 in Ascona), draftsman, painter, graphic artist
• Otto Niemeyer-Holstein (1896–1984)
• Oskar Dickmann (* 1896 in Vienna, † 1972 in Muralto), Austrian painter and sculptor.
• Margherita Osswald-Toppi (* 1897 in Anticoli Corrado , † 1971 in Rome), painter and sculptor
• Albert Rittmeyer (* 1898 in Chemnitz , † 1959 in Ascona), painter
• Gustav Adolf Hedblom (1898–1972), Swedish painter and sculptor created in Ascona.

From 1900

• César Domela (born January 15, 1900 in Amsterdam , † December 30, 1992 in Paris ), German sculptor, painter, photographer and typographer
• Germaine Verna Marx (* 1900 in Paris, † 1975 in Ascona), painter
• Reinhold Strohhäcker (* 1900 in Nürtingen ; † 1975 there), painter
• Ferdinand Grosshardt (1901–1960), painter, graphic artist and set designer
• Hans Herzig (born May 24, 1901 in Bern), painter.
• Mischa Epper-Quarles van Ufford (1901–1978) (citizen of Zurich), sculptor, goldsmith
• Marie Luise “Mieke” Vogeler-Regulator (* 1901 in Worpswede , † 1945 in Coyoacán , Mexico ), goldsmith, artist
• Walter Hasenfratz (born May 31, 1904 in Cologne ; † February 2, 1983 in Ascona), painter, graphic artist and draftsman
• Rosetta Leins (1905–1966), painter.
• Erwin Schönmann (* 1906 in Thalwil ; † 1999 in Thunstetten BE ), painter, sculptor and mosaic artist, lived in Ascona
• Paul Vogt (born April 8, 1907 in Flawil ; † October 14, 2003 in Locarno) from Allschwil , Swiss sculptor
• Josef Eberli (born April 13, 1908 in Lucerne ; † November 18, 1988 in Zumikon ), draftsman and graphic artist
• Hans Heiner Hesse (born March 1, 1909 in Gaienhofen ; † April 7, 2003 in Ascona), decorator, book illustrator, administrator of his father Hermann's estate.
• Rolf Gérard (1909–2011), doctor, set designer and painter
• Maja Müller (* 1909 in?; † 1996 in Ascona), artist
• Martin Hesse (1911–1968 in Bern), photographer
• Karl Gerber (1912–1974), painter
• Emanuele "Lello" Bianda (* 1912 in Losone , † 1990 in Ascona), airport operator and "Signor Ascona"
• Anne Valenti De Montet (born November 20, 1912 in Vevey ; † January 2, 2009 in Mendrisio ), from Ascona, photographer, poet, lived in Ascona
• Italo Valenti (1912–1995 in Ascona), Italian painter
• Eugen Früh (born January 22, 1914 in St. Gallen ; † July 18, 1975 in Zurich ), graphic artist and painter
• Alfredo Mordasini (born April 13, 1914 in Ascona; † October 3, 1999 ibid) (civic town of Crana ) today community onsernone , painter, restorer and decorator
• Otto Bachmann (* 1915 in Lucerne; † 1996 in Ascona), painter and graphic artist
• Max Keller (born July 23, 1916 in Zurich; † October 25, 1982 ibid), painter and wood cutter
• Luigi Pericle Giovannetti (born June 22, 1916 in Basel; † August 10, 2001 in Locarno), Swiss cartoonist, illustrator, draftsman and painter
• Werner Zingg (born October 15, 1916 in Basel, † September 2, 2010 in Intragna TI ), from Busswil near Melchnau , Swiss painter and sculptor lived in Ascona
• Isa Hesse-Rabinovitch (1917–2003 in Küsnacht ), filmmaker, illustrator, graphic artist, photographer and reporter.
• Angelo (Beli) Cattomio (born November 1, 1917 in Ascona; † January 1, 2000 in Intragna TI), cabinet maker and inlay
• Gudrun Mueller-Poeschmann (born August 29, 1924 in Cuxhaven ; † February 6, 2007 in Bellinzona ), graphic designer.
• André Bucher (sculptor) (1924–2009), Swiss artist and sculptor lived in Ascona
• Erich Lenkeit (born June 6, 1928 in Lüneburg ; † February 21, 2017 there), artist and caricaturist
• Erich Meili (* 1928 in Zurich; † 1981 in Ascona), art copyist.
• Egon Franz Hermann Schöneberg (born October 20, 1934 in Ohrdruf ; † October 24, 2000 in Bellinzona), German painter and object artist

Fritz Hochwälder (approx. 1979)

Jorge Semprún (2009)

Theodor Reuss with the Freemason's apron

Isadora Duncan about 1906–1912

Tilla Durieux in 1905, photographed by Jacob Hilsdorf

Brigitte Helm

Architect, technician, scientist, industrialist

• Gaetano Matteo Pisoni (1713–1782), architect in Solothurn , Delsberg , Namur , Liège and Zurich
• Paolo Pisoni (born November 7, 1738 in Ascona; † November 7, 1804 in Solothurn), nephew of Gaetano Matteo, architect in Solothurn, Kriegstetten and Basel
• Carl Weidemeyer (1882–1976), artist and architect
• Emil Fahrenkamp (1885–1966), architect and university professor
• Eduard Keller (1890–1954), architect and architectural writer
• Erhard Gull (born June 28, 1895 in Zurich; † April 17, 1970 in Ascona), Swiss architect, professor of construction management
• Werner Jacob Müller (born October 6, 1899 in Winterthur ; † March 27, 1986 in Ascona), architect, sculptor and painter.
• Wilfried de Beauclair (1912–2020), engineer and computer scientist
• Aldo Rampazzi (* 1947 in Ascona), architect and politician
• Carlo Rampazzi (* 1949 in Ascona), interior architect and designer
• Michele Arnaboldi (1953 in Ascona) is a Swiss architect and university professor.

Clergy, philanthropists

• Giovanni Abbondio (* around 1375 in Ascona; † before October 13, 1424 in Riga ), bishop
• Riccardo Pedrazzini (born October 12, 1862 in Ascona; † November 17, 192 ibid), priest, archpriest of Ascona, patron of the Lega operaia cattolica

• Berno family
  • Pietro Berno (1552 / 53–1583) Jesuit and missionary to India
  • Bartolomeo Berno (* 1590 in Ascona; † October 4, 1670 there), priest
  • Giacomo Filippo Berno (* around 1695 in Ascona; † 1763 there), priest, theologian
• Giuseppe Zezi (born November 18, 1713 in Ascona, † June 10, 1787 in Como ), theologian, vicar general of Bishop Giovanni Battista Muggiasca

• Caglioni family
  • Giulio Cesare Caglioni (born August 9, 1760 in Ascona; † February 14, 1828 there), priest
  • Andrea Caglioni (1763–1825), judge and politician
  • Marco Provino Caglioni (* 1788 in Ascona; † 1866 there), priest and politician

• Severino Pisoni (born October 20, 1837 in Ascona, † October 3, 1915 in Lugano ), Archpriest of Ascona, Canon of Lugano, Archpriest of Lugano, Vicar General of the Diocese of Lugano
• Angelo Abbondio (born April 16, 1854 in Ascona; † November 9, 1927 ibid), pastor, professor of rhetoric, archpriest of Ascona and Balerna , founder of the weekly newspaper La famiglia
• Siro Borrani (born October 3, 1860 in Ascona; † July 30, 1932 there), priest, archivist of the Diocese of Lugano
• Karl Gräser (officer) (* 1875 in Kronstadt, † 1920 in Kassel ), Hungarian first lieutenant with "anarchist ideals", co-founder of the "vegetable cooperative" on Monte Verità
• Karl Vester (* 1879 in Germany; † 1963 in Ascona), nature lover
• Lilly Volkart (* 1897 in Zurich; † 1988 in Ascona), benefactress, home manager

Politicians, lecturers

• Carlo Caglioni (born June 16, 1790 in Ascona; † September 22, 1846 there), son of Andrea, lawyer and politician, Ticino councilor and state councilor
• Michele Pedrazzini (born December 3, 1819 in Ascona; † September 13, 1873 in Bellinzona), lawyer and notary in Cevio and Bellinzona, Ticino councilor, national councilor , editor
• Raphael Friedeberg (born March 14, 1863 in Tilsit ; † August 16, 1940 in Ascona), doctor, revolutionary
• Michele Barra (1952–2013 ibid), politician and master builder, former Ticino State Councilor (Lega).

Entrepreneur, banker, restaurateur, art collector

• Bernhard Mayer (1866–1946 in Zurich), German fur trader, anarchist, patron, art collector
• Clemens Oppenheimer (* 1876 in Strasbourg ; † 1952 in Ascona), German refugee, entrepreneur
• Eduard von der Heydt (1882–1964), German-Swiss baron, banker, art collector and patron
• Marguerite Hagenbach (born August 22, 1902 in Basel ; † August 23, 1994 in Solduno ), Jean Arp's second wife ,
• Karl-Heinz Kipp (1924–2017), German-Swiss entrepreneur
• Ivo Adam (* 1977), cook and book author

Musician, musicologist

• Ida Hofmann Oedenkoven (* 1864 in Ottendorf (Thuringia) , † 1926 in São Paulo ), from Montenegro , pianist, music teacher and feminist
• Hermann Wetzler (born September 8, 1870 in Frankfurt am Main , † May 29, 1943 in New York City ), organist, orchestra conductor and
• Anthony van Hoboken (1887–1983), Dutch musicologist, music collector
• Max Ettinger (1874–1951), Austrian-German-Swiss composer and conductor
• Leo Kok (born November 24, 1893 in Amsterdam , † August 7, 1992 in Ascona), pianist, composer;
• Wladimir Rudolfowitsch Vogel (1896–1984), composer
• Albert Moeschinger (1897–1985), Swiss composer
• Fritz Rotter (1900–1984), Austrian author and composer
• Ernst Fischer (composer) (1900–1975), composer
• Hans Haug (1900–1967), composer
• Jakob (Jack) Trommer (* 1905 in Zurich; † 1990 in Onsernone), pianist and composer
• Enrico (Rico) Hugel (born September 1, 1906 in Ascona; † July 15, 1980 there), composer and orchestra conductor
• Willy Hugel (born September 29, 1917 in Ascona), pianist, composer and orchestra conductor, employee of Radio della Svizzera
• Helmut Zacharias (1920–2002), violinist and composer
• Paul Giezendanner (born August 5, 1935 in Zurich; † January 24, 2002 in Locarno), from St. Gallen , pianist, he lived in Ascona.

Doctors, therapists, scientists

• Ferdinand von Wrangell (* 1844 in St. Petersburg, † 1919 in Ascona), baron, naval officer, educator, writer
• Adolf Arthur Grohmann (1856–1908), engineer, therapist and writer
• Anna Fischer-Dückelmann (1856–1917), naturopath, publicist, educator
• Arnold Ehret (1866–1922), German naturopath and book author.
• Paul Lazarus (physician) (1873–1957), German radiologist
• Ita Wegman (1876–1943), doctor, co-founder of anthroposophic medicine
• Anna Iduna Zehnder (1877–1955), doctor and painter
• Walter Rudolf Hess (1881–1973), Swiss physiologist and Nobel Prize winner in medicine
• Fritz Kahn (author) (1888–1968 in Locarno), doctor and author
• Adolf Portmann (1897–1982), Swiss biologist, zoologist, anthropologist
• Boris Luban-Plozza (born June 29, 1923, † December 24, 2002 in Locarno), from Rossa , Swiss psychiatrist, psychosomatic, he lived in Ascona.
• Lothar Knaak -Sommer (1925–2006), Swiss psychotherapist.

Writers, historians, philosophers, educators, journalists, publishers

• Carlo Antonio Allidi (* around 1682 in Ascona; † after 1740), doctor and Latin writer of the 18th century
• Karl Viktor von Bonstetten (1745–1832), Swiss writer.
• Pyotr Alexejewitsch Kropotkin (1842–1921 in Dmitrov ), Russian anarchist, geographer and writer
• Ellen Key (1849–1926), Swedish reform pedagogue and writer
• Gabriele Reuter (1859–1941), German writer
• Jenny Hofmann (* 1863 in Ottendorf (Thuringia) ), co-founder of Monte Verità
• Lothar Persius (1864–1944), German naval officer
• Max Nettlau (1865–1944), German linguist, historian of anarchism
• Stefan George (1868–1933), German poet
• Else Lasker-Schüler (1869–1945), German-Jewish poet
• Karl Wolfskehl (1869–1948), German writer, translator
• Otto Braun (1872–1955), social democratic German politician
• Efraim Frisch (1873–1942), German writer, theater critic, translator and editor
• Lauretta Rensi-Perucchi (born March 28, 1873 in Ascona; † May 8, 1966 in Genoa ), pedagogue, Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (Grand Officer).
• Henri Oedenkoven (1875–1935), co-founder of the Monte Verità artists' colony
• Lotte Hattemer alias Paulette Charlotte Hattemer (born November 24, 1876 in Berlin , † 1906 in Ascona), co-founder of Monte Verità
• Georg Kaiser (1878–1945), German writer and playwright
• Willhelm Schmidtbonn (* 1876 in Bonn; † 1952 Bad Godesberg ), writer.
• Erich Mühsam (1878–1934), German writer, publicist and anti-militarist
• Gustav Gräser (1879–1958), German-Austrian artist, founder of the Monte Verità settlement
• Emil Ludwig (1881–1948), writer
• Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn (1881–1962), philosopher
• Johannes Nohl (1882–1963), German writer and anarchist
• André Germain (1882–1971), French journalist, literary critic and essayist
• Leonhard Frank (1882–1961), German writer
• Robert Faesi (born April 10, 1883 in Zurich ; † September 18, 1972 in Zollikon ), Swiss Germanist and writer.
• Robert Genin (1884–1941), painter, graphic artist, illustrator and writer
• Heinrich Hanselmann (1885–1960), Swiss educator
• Bruno Goetz (1885–1954), Baltic German poet, writer and translator
• Emil Szittya (1886–1964), Hungarian writer, journalist, painter, art critic
• Albert Ehrenstein (1886–1950), German-speaking poet and narrator
• Walter Serner (1889–1942), writer and Dadaist
• Aline Valangin (1889–1986), Swiss writer, pianist and psychoanalyst
• Max Pulver (1889-1952 in Zurich), Swiss psychologist, graphologist, poet, playwright
• Walter Rothenburg (1889–1975), was a boxing promoter, songwriter and writer
• Emil Balmer (1890–1966), Swiss dialect author who made Ascona a second home (book Sunneland )
• Alfred Fankhauser (1890–1973), Swiss writer, journalist and astrologer
• Josef Kastein (1890–1946), German writer
• Klabund (1890–1928), German writer.
• Claire Goll (1890–1977), writer and journalist
• Yvan Goll (1891–1950), poet
• Valerio Abbondio (1891–1958), high school teacher, poet
• Mary Lavater-Sloman (1891–1980), Swiss writer
• Werner Bergengruen (1892–1964), German-Baltic writer
• Walther Tritsch (1892–1961), Austrian writer, translator and historian
• Werner Ackermann (1892–1982), writer, publisher
• Oskar Maria Graf (1894–1967), writer
• Emil Oesch (1894–1974), Swiss writer and publisher
• Rudolf Jakob Humm (1895–1977), writer and translator
• Elsa Margot Hinzelmann (1895–1969), writer,
• Marcel Janco (1895–1984), Romanian-Israeli artist, writer, architect
• Erika Guetermann (1895–1988), American journalist and poet
• Guggenheim Werner Johannes (1895–1946), writer and translator
• Friedrich Glauser (1896–1938), Swiss writer
• Doris Hasenfratz (1896–1974), journalist and writer
• Walter Mehring (1896–1981), German writer
• Tristan Tzara (1896–1963), Romanian writer, co-founder of Dadaism
• Karl Kerényi (1897–1973), philologist and religious scholar
• Franz Schulz (1897–1971), Austrian-Bohemian writer and screenwriter
• Hans Gustl Kernmayr (1900–1977), Austrian writer and screenwriter
• Hugo Rahner, SJ (May 3, 1900 in Pfullendorf ; † December 21, 1968 in Munich ), German Jesuit, theologian and historian
• Julius Hay (1900–1975), Hungarian-Austrian playwright
• Robert Siodmak (1900–1973), film director, screenwriter and film producer
• Curt Riess (1902–1993), German writer
• Albert Vigoleis Thelen (1903–1989), German writer and translator
• Victoria Wolff (1903–1992) American writer, screenwriter
• Richard B. Matzig (1904–1951), writer and literary scholar
• Hans Jacoby (screenwriter) (1904–1963), German screenwriter
• James Hadley Chase (1906–1985), British thriller writer
• Gotthard de Beauclair (1907–1992), German publisher and poet
• Irene Terribilini-Amadò (born September 20, 1908 in Curio , † January 15, 2001 in Ascona), from Vergeletto , secondary school teacher lived in Ascona
• Werner Keller (1909–1980), journalist, non-fiction author and resistance fighter against National Socialism
• Werner Rings (1910–1998), Swiss historian, journalist
• Kurt Hoffmann (1910–2001), German film director, producer and screenwriter
• Hans Habe (1911–1977), journalist and writer
• Fritz Hochwälder (1911–1986), Austrian playwright
• Werner Jörg Lüddecke (1912–1986 in Ascona), German writer, screenwriter
• Ernst Schnabel (1913–1986), German writer, radio pioneer.
• Hans Roos (* 1916 in Aarau ; † 1993 in Locarno), Swiss newspaper maker
• Arturo Fornaro (* 1920 in Pescara ; † November 21, 2000 there), writer
• Peter Schifferli (1921–1980), Swiss publisher.
• Walter Höllerer (1922–2003), German writer, literary critic and literary scholar
• Wolfgang Oppenheimer (born November 30, 1921 in Strasbourg; † September 30, 1999 in Ascona), economist , historian , author , lived in Ascona
• Jorge Semprún (1923–2011 in Paris), Spanish writer
• Henry Jaeger (1927–2000), German writer
• Pia Pedrazzini (born February 13, 1927 in Lucerne ; † March 11, 2003 in Locarno), from Ascona, teacher, journalist, employee of the Radiotelevisione della Svizzera italiana ( RSI ), writer

Entertainment industry

• Theodor Reuss (1855–1923), German opera singer, journalist, Freemason, theosophist, founder of occult orders
• Isadora Duncan (1877–1927), American dancer and choreographer
• Rudolf von Laban (1879–1958), Hungarian dancer, choreographer
• Tilla Durieux (1880–1971), Austrian actress
• Käthe Kruse (1883–1968), actress, doll maker
• Mary Wigman (1886–1973), dancer, choreographer
• Katja Wulff (* 1890 in Hamburg , † 1992 in Basel), dancer
• Robert Siodmak (1900–1973), German film director, screenwriter, film producer
• Charlotte Bara (1901–1986), expressive dancer
• Jo Mihaly (1902–1989), dancer, actress, poet
• Werner Fink (1902–1978), cabaret artist, actor
• Werner Finck (1902–1978), German cabaret artist, actor and writer
• Sonja Bragowa (1903–1998), German dancer
• Delly Flay-Waldvogel (1904–1970), dance teacher
• Ursula von Wiese (1905–2002), Swiss actress, translator, writer
• Erika Mann (1905–1969), German actress, cabaret artist, writer, editor
• Brigitte Helm (1906–1996), actress
• Max Haufler (1910–1965), Swiss actor, painter, film director
• Kurt Hoffmann (1910–2001), German film director, producer and screenwriter
• Licci Balla-Habe (* 1915 in Bratislava , † 1995 in Ascona), singer and dancer
• Isa Hesse-Rabinovitch (1917–2003 in Küsnacht ), graphic designer, photographer and filmmaker
• Ivan Desny (1922–2002), actor
• Ghislaine Arsac (* 1930 in Paris, † 1991 in Ascona), model, actress
• Dimitri (1935-2016), clown

athlete

• Luigi Antognini (1886–1966), wrestler, politician, Ticino Grand Councilor
• Miranda Graf (born June 1, 1969), first individual world champion in mini golf (1991)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Lara Broggi: Antonio da Tradate. In: Sikart (as of 2013) , accessed February 3, 2016.
2. ↑ Antonio da Tradate painter (Italian) on artevarese.com/il-percorso-di-antonio-da-tradate/
3. ^ Matthias Oberli: Giovanni Antonio de Lagaia. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 8, 2007 , accessed January 12, 2020 .
4. ^ Silvia Valle Parri: Giovanni Agostino da Lodi e Giovanni Antonio de Lagaia. Angelo annunciante; Assunzione della Vergine. Giovanni Antonio De Lagaia. Madonna della Misericordia. In: Giovanni Agosti, Jacopo Stoppa, Marco Tanzi (eds.), “Il Rinascimento nelle terre ticinesi. Da Bramantino a Bernardino Luini », Officina Libraria, Milano 2010.
5. ↑ ^{a b c d} Alessandra Maffioli: Abbondio. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 11, 2000 , accessed January 12, 2020 .
6. ↑ Antonio Abbondi at archive.org/stream (accessed November 28, 2016).
7. ↑ Marco Abbondi at archive.org/stream (accessed November 28, 2016).
8. ↑ Ursula Stevens: Alessandro Abondio. In: tessinerkuenstler-ineuropa.ch. Retrieved October 28, 2016 . 
9. ↑ Serodine, Cristoforo. In: Sikart , accessed on February 28, 2016.
10. ^ Giovanni Battista Serodine. In: Sikart
11. ↑ Giovanni Battista Serodine's life on treccani.it (Italian).
12. ↑ Bernardino Serodine. In: Sikart
13. ↑ Paolo Antonio Pisoni. In: Sikart , accessed January 16, 2016.
14. ^ Hans-Rudolf Heyer: Gaetano Matteo Pisoni. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 10, 2013 , accessed January 12, 2020 .
15. ^ Hans-Rudolf Heyer: Paolo Pisoni. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . February 3, 2010 , accessed January 12, 2020 .
16. ^ Giuseppe Maria Pancaldi. In: Sikart , accessed January 13, 2016.
17. ^ Carlo Giuseppe Pancaldi. In: Sikart , accessed January 13, 2016.
18. ^ Pietro Francesco Pancaldi. In: Sikart
19. ^ Pietro Francesco Pancaldi (Italian, books.google.ch ).
20. ↑ Francesco Pancaldi. In: Sikart , accessed January 13, 2016.
21. ^ Elisabeth "Elly" Lenz. In: Sikart , accessed January 24, 2016.
22. ↑ Viking Eggeling on ti.ch, accessed on: September 6, 2016 (Italian).
23. ↑ Otto Lüssi. In: Sikart , accessed February 2, 2016.
24. ↑ Albert Kohler. In: Sikart , accessed February 2, 2016.
25. ↑ Gordon McCouch ) on ti.ch, accessed at: Italian 29 August 2016 (.
26. ↑ Margarethe Marianne Fellerer on archividonneticino.ch
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