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A visit to the national painter’s home

His paintings of Swiss village life made Albert Anker famous during his lifetime and are still popular 100 years after his death. But the interests of the 19-century painter went beyond the borders of his home country. (Michele Andina, swissinfo.ch)

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A documentary and animation filmmaker from Bern, Michele studied film at Zurich University of the Arts. He's been a swissinfo.ch video journalist since 2004 and has a special interest in developing new video formats for mobile viewing, mixing animation and documentary styles.

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