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Salomon Gessner
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Salomon Gessner (1 April 1730 – 2 March 1788) was a Swiss painter, graphic artist, government official, newspaper publisher, and poet, best known in the latter instance for his Idylls. He was a co-founder of the Helvetic Society and the first publisher and editor of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung.
Quotes
Es ist doch den Mädchen wie angeboren, dass sie allem gefallen wollen, was nur Augen hat.
The desire to please everything having eyes seems inborn in maidens.
Evander und Alcima, act 3, sc. 1
Reported in Hoyt's (1922), p. 889
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Category:Painters from Switzerland
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