Varlin

This gave him easy access to Bavarian limestone, the same material used by Manet, Daumier, and Gavarni to make prints.

Aware that he needed to earn a living, he got a job as a clerk with Company Risacher in Faubourg Montmartre.

Zborovski decided Varlin needed to change his name because Guggenheim had bourgeois connotations and he thought it would put off the more Bohemian parts of Parisian society.

His friend and mentor Zborovskis died in 1932 and two years later, Varlin returned to Switzerland to be with his mother and sister.

He received a number of Swiss awards and his exhibitions were met with high praise although often controversial.

In the spring of 1976 a major exhibition of 59 paintings opened at the Municipal Modern Art Gallery in Milan.

The same day came the news that the city of Florence had given him The Fiorino D'oro award for his lifework in the arts.

Quaderni grigionitaliani, Fasciolo speciale Edizione della Pro Grigioni Italiano, Coira, dicembre 2000 2 Bände mit CD-Rom; Verlag Scheidegger und Spiess, Zürich, 2000; beim Verlag erhältlich vergriffen