User talk:Entopos

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Hello, Entopos. Thank you for your work on Heini Waser. User:Netherzone, while examining this page as a part of our page curation process, I had the following comments:

Hello, and thank you for creating the article on the Swiss painter Heini Waser. I've cleaned up the tone and extraneous detail, and consolidated one of the galleries into another to decrease redundancy. Also, there is usually a short section for "Collections" in visual artist's biographies, which should consist of several notable museum or national gallery collections. This helps to establish the notability of an artist per criteria found in the WP:NARTIST guideline for notability of creatives. The collections should be verifiable and reliably sourced (they can be sourced directly to the online collection of the museum/national gallery. The section should not include private collections or things like auction sales.

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Netherzone (talk) 18:34, 4 July 2023 (UTC)

@Netherzone:

Hello, Netherzone. Thank you very much indeed for reviewing and improving the article Heini Waser so carefully!

In the meantime, I have added a citation for Waser's studies in Florence. – "Sensitive and modest": Ernst Brugger (citation given after the following sentence) wrote "I sensed how he sought to fathom me ... patiently and with rather shy reserve", and he also mentioned Waser's "natural reverence for Creation".

Regarding works in public collections, SIKART states, rather vaguely: "Werke in institutionellen Sammlungen (Auswahl): ... Zollikon, Kunstsammlung der Gemeinde; Bern, Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft, Bundesamt für Kultur; Kunstsammlung Kanton Zürich; Kunstsammlung der Stadt Zürich." I have used this piece of information in the second sentence of the "Work" section.

Best wishes, Entopos (talk) 20:04, 4 July 2023 (UTC)

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