Sailing Boats on Lake

Gos' lyrical composition includes birds in flight as well as sea birds skirting the water ahead of the largest sailboat.  Subtle sky coloration is flawless.

"Albert Henry John Gos (born April 6, 1852 in Geneva, † June 23, 1942) was a Swiss musician, composer, landscape painter and author. As an admirer of the high mountains, he became to some extent the "court painter" of the Matterhorn.

In Geneva, a street is named after Albert Gos, the "Rue Albert-Gos".

Albert Gos studied violin at the conservatory in Geneva.  As a professional violinist he received the prize of the conservatory in 1870.

Several years after Alexandre Calame's death, Albert Gos was asked by his widow to play with her in the unchanged studio of the late Swiss painter. The discovery of Calame's paintings led Albert Gos to pursue the second career of a painter, spending a semester studying with Barthélemy Menn. As an admirer of the high mountains, he became to some extent the "court painter" of the Matterhorn.

Several times Gos was awarded prizes. In 1880 he won (before Ferdinand Hodler) the first "Diday Prize" and in 1887 (again before Hodler) the "Calame Prize". His works have been shown at major events, such as the Royal Academy in London in 1880 and the World's Fair in Paris in 1900, where he won a medal. Gos’ paintings are in museums of Switzerland and the USA (Louisville, Buffalo and Brooklyn / New York).

In 1942, Albert Gos published the autobiography Souvenirs d'un peintre de montagne (Memories of a mountain painter)." excerpted from AskArt.com