What was Turner’s fascination with a small, sleepy town in Switzerland?
Published on: Thursday 18 July 2019
In the Kunstmuseum in Lucerne, a futuristic art gallery beside Switzerland’s most beautiful lake, the museum’s director, Fanni Fetzer, is showing me her new Turner exhibition. On the gallery walls are pictures of Lucerne as Turner saw it – a one-horse town dwarfed by the mountains that tower over it. Now look out of the window. The view he painted has been transformed. Two
