Early Life, Family and Training Winterthur, Switzerland, serves as the starting point for Adolf Stäbli, born on 31 May 1842. His lineage is rooted in the craft of engraving; his father, Diethelm, hails from Brugg, Aargau. The path toward fine art begins early. At sixteen, Adolf Stäbli leaves formal schooling behind to enter his father's workshop, beginning his first real engagement with the technical demands of visual representation. The training shifts from the domestic sphere to the professional studio in Zürich. Between 1859 and 1861, he serves as an apprentice to Rudolf Koller. This per…
A chart of Adolf Stäbli's corpus mapped not by date but by subject. Spokes are what they painted; rings are when; and the threads between stars reveal the patrons and places that secretly connect them.
Each arm of the atlas gathers works by what they depict: portraits, sacred scenes, mythologies, and the scientific studies. Click a spoke to swing that cluster to the top.
Distance from the center marks time. The innermost ring is the earliest period; the outermost, the final years. Style matures as you move outward.
Coloured lines link works bound by the same patron, commission, or theme. Trace a context to watch related clusters light up across subjects.