List of personalities from Collina d'Oro

This list contains people born in Collina d'Oro in the canton of Ticino and those who had their sphere of activity in Collina d'Oro without being born there. The list does not claim to be complete.

Personalities

Charles Eugene Lancelot Brown, around 1900

Portrait of Hans Purrmann (oil, around 1913), by Rudolf Levy

Bruno Walter, Vienna 1912

Hugo Ball, 1916

Sergio Ermotti (2012)

Ignazio Cassis (2015)

The Adamini family from Bigogno (former municipality of Agra TI ) (18th - 19th centuries), architects in Russia
- Leone Adamini (* 1728), was the presumed founder in the 18th and 19th centuries BC. a. Adamini dynasty operating in Saint Petersburg . He was the father of Tommaso.
- Tommaso Adamini (1763–1828), master builder
- Leone Adamini (1789–1854), son of Tommaso, master builder and in 1825 his father's successor in Saint Petersburg.
- Domenico Adamini (1792–1860), master builder

Alberto Fè (* 1708/09 in Viglio (today the municipality of Collina d'Oro); † August 31, 1772 ibid), architect, engineer and builder
Charles Eugene Lancelot Brown (1863–1924), co-founder of the BBC electrical engineering company

Gunter Böhmer (1911–1986 in Montagnola ), German-Swiss painter, draftsman and book illustrator

Max Horkheimer (1895–1973), German social philosopher and head of the Frankfurt School

Friedrich Pollock (1894–1970), German sociologist and economist

Hans Purrmann (1880–1966), German painter, graphic artist, art writer and collector

Bruno Walter (1876–1962), conductor, pianist and composer

Hugo Ball (1886–1927), German author

Emmy Hennings (1885–1948), German writer and cabaret artist.

Alexander Nikolajewitsch Benois (1870–1960), painter, art critic

Luigi Simona (1874–1968), priest, art historian, author

Sergio Emery (born March 2, 1928 in Chardonne VD ; † June 5, 2003 in Gentilino ), painter, draftsman, engraver, lithographer

Elena Buchmann (* 1935? In Milan ), gallery owner, art collector lives in Agra TI

Sergio Ermotti (* 1960), Swiss bank manager

Laura Sadis (* 1961), Swiss politician

Ignazio Cassis (* 1961), politician

Individual evidence

↑ Adamini . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 1 : Aa – Antonio de Miraguel . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1907, p. 70 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Lucia Pedrini Stanga: Adamini. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . March 14, 2017 , accessed January 17, 2020 .
↑ Eliana Perotti: Alberto Fè. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . May 8, 2006 , accessed March 12, 2020 .
↑ Elena Buchmann in portal.dnb.de (accessed on: May 29, 2016.)

[1] Adamini . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 1 : Aa – Antonio de Miraguel . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1907, p. 70 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

[Adamini-2] Lucia Pedrini Stanga: Adamini. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . March 14, 2017 , accessed January 17, 2020 .

[3] Eliana Perotti: Alberto Fè. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . May 8, 2006 , accessed March 12, 2020 .

[4] Elena Buchmann in portal.dnb.de (accessed on: May 29, 2016.)