Karl Edmund Walser (April 8, 1877, Teufen - September 28, 1943, Bern)[1][2] was a Swiss painter, stage designer, illustrator, muralist, and artist.

He was a close friend of German expressionist painter Max Beckmann, who strongly influenced his work.

[1] Most of Walser's earlier works were lost during World War II.

In addition to several study trips to Belgium, France, Spain, Italy and Japan, Karl Walser produced stage sets for opera and theatre from 1903.

[citation needed] He returned to Switzerland in 1917 and mainly worked on  the painterly decoration of public spaces, such as the Amtshaus in Zurich, the Stadttheater in Bern and the Grossratssaal at Bern City Hall.