Art meets mountain.

Abstract in the Alpine idyll: In the middle of the Upper Engadine mountain world a white cone topped by a marble. The artwork on the Muottas Muragl irritated while the hiker - also shows how high the Engadine appreciate their culture. Very high.

 

What is it? A marker for the piste caterpillar? Hikers Guide disorientation? Just what a crew here has forgotten? Who's at the top station Muottas Muragl from the oblique compartment of the funicular climbs, 2456 meters closer to the sky, breath in the thin mountain air and intoxicated by wide view to the bottom, stands in front of a picture puzzle: add photo wallpaper mountain panorama towers so obvious how strange sense, a large cone like a stone Stehaufmännchen, accurate verdübelt with the hard granite floor.

What nailed this one view? A pensioners group debated, and a visitor from the Far East disturbed orbits the obstacle, fumbled on the camera and seems to ask: keep it around or take pictures? Correct would be: keep it. And do not worry: It's just a bit of art.

With the "drop" the sculptor Timo Lindner, the brave Rhaetian Railway done a little extravagance. The four-meter-high sculpture made of stone, mortar and white marble, the same wassertropfen enthroned above the valley, is the summit of the glacier ice to symbolize, says his creator Lindner, and like "a mountain to irritate visitors.

It is not the first time that the area around the hill station of Mouttas Muragl is an open-air gallery. Only two years ago planted a local group of artists on behalf of the Society Bergbahn hundreds buntgestreifte wood slats on the neighboring mountain sheep - where long mountain meets art.

Symbolism fits apple pie

For those who are in the south aufmacht and two hours through tree-free, barren mountain landscape goes, passing by an ocean flechtenüberzogener slate, waterfalls and almost provocative marmots, that comes to Segantini hut. Here its namesake has long lived here, he is a September night in 1899.

Giovanni Segantini has the Swiss Alps in a facial oil, and hardly a place that appeared to him better than the small field stone on the mountain sheep: a Logenplatz before what they are "the ballroom of the Alps" baptized have painted as a backdrop: Under the deep blue sky Palü access the Piz Bernina and the top, below the dark green Roseg and Mint in the chain of lakes of St. Moritz to Maloja. Famous Segantini particularly with the luminosity of his paintings. Who wants to know where the symbolistic its light was very special, must be on the mountain sheep. Many but mainly because Susannes apple pie.

The Segantini hut she and her husband Angelo a few years ago leased, now they are culturally interested sweetened mountain walkers with homemade art. "Most," she says, "want both." For Susanne, submit the walking sticks out of hand, and sit beside Edelweiß marguerites on the terrace, looking at the subject of Segantini Alpine Triptych and let the anecdote, as the painter in the winter the oven out easel dragged on, so that the Colors remained liquid.

Before the road into the valley, they still on the mountain and to the Angelos art with special mixture "Murmeltierfurz": herbal liqueur with a cherry on top. "Segantini" says Angelo, "would have been hooked."

Star hotel with private art guide

Segantini was especially addicted to the Engadine, and not only he, painters, sculptors, photographers, the small piece of Switzerland with the great gig always dressed. And more and more people are curious to what it is incurred. The museums and galleries in St. Moritz have now also in summer. The venerable hotel in Pontresina Saratz has recently completed a sculpture exhibition of 80 works was opened.

And the five-star competition from Kronenhof is proud to be the only hotel in Switzerland, which is its own art making guide. The guests said the Byzantine-Romanesque frescoes in the St. Mary's Church, knows the text by Nietzsche, Hesse and Tucholsky over the Engadine and he knows where Giovanni Segantini his final resting took place: in the village cemetery of Maloja, beside his wife under Lupines and a piece of marble, which states: "Art and Love beat the time."

The cemetery runs along the Segantini way, the stations in twelve of the painter motifs follows, from the village center Malojas until Sils lake. Who here is leaving the village and ascends toward Blaunca is probably soon in the salvation of all Swiss worlds: in the middle of a meadow of flowers lies konfettibunten between Turks and Akelei federal, lady's slipper and yellow poppies, Grevasalvas where Luigi Comencini 1952 Heidi and Peter goats in front of the camera bat.

Heidi Toy Wunderland

Much can be grown in a handful of houses schindelgedeckter not have done, only one is new: the green sits Anger Now a group of hikers and culture enjoys lunch before a reading, listening, as their mountain guide from Johanna Spyri book reads the passage in which Heidi is in the remote zurücksehnt Frankfurt to Switzerland: "So every day because Heidi was sitting and had all the time to imagine, as now the pasture was green again and how the yellow flowers in the sunshine sparkled and shone like everything around the sun, the snow and the mountains and the whole valley. "

And in the broad valley below the red leaves Rhaetian Railway on the green lake, in which the blue sky and white snow blogsn. A toy wonderland, like an unreal nachkolorierte kitsch-postcard, really genuine and yet hardly bearable. But who knows: Maybe coming soon, a young sculptor, is a stone Stehaufmännchen in the middle of the countryside and make the world heal Heidi simply a gallery.