Rutishauser portrait collection

Press and Federal Palace photographer Walter Rutishauser, born 1940, was deeply interested in the events that took place in the Federal Palace. He took portraits of Federal Councillors and members of the National Council and Council of States; he captured politicians engrossed in debate and took part in press conferences and public events.

The BiG’s Rutishauser portrait collection spans over 6,000 digitized photographs. The collection can be accessed online via our library catalogue.

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Additional Info

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Identifier BiG_OGD_Rutishauser@bibliothek-am-guisanplatz-big
Title for URL of the dataset Portraitsammlung Rutishauser
Schedule the publication of the dataset -
Issued date November 30, 2015
Modification date March 20, 2018
Conforms to -
Update interval Continuously updated
Temporal coverage -
Publisher Information Bibliothek am Guisanplatz
Contact points Alexandria Koordination
Languages Language independent
URL https://www.big.admin.ch/de/bestaende-und-sammlungen/digitalisierte-spezialsammlungen/portraitsammlung-rutishauser.html
Relation Legal basis
Spatial -
Related datasets -
Documentation -
Keywords
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