Dominique Appia

About

Dominique Appia was a Swiss painter based in Geneva, renowned for his dreamlike surrealist works that juxtapose familiar elements in imaginative scenarios, such as cities, landscapes, and interiors where a cathedral becomes a railway station or the Mediterranean emerges from the Paris Metro. Born in 1926, he initially worked as an architect, learning on the job after World War II amid Switzerland's economic surge, despite lacking formal training; he later taught architecture. Discouraged from pursuing art in his teens, he resumed painting in the mid-1960s following a midlife crisis and continued creating until late in life.

Surrealism with dreamlike juxtapositions often compared to Salvador Dalí