# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karl-walser
# Generated: 2026-09-02T07:02:29.020Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karl-walser"
name: "Karl Walser"
slug: "karl-walser"
description: "Karl Edmund Walser was a Swiss painter, stage designer, illustrator, muralist, and artist. He was the older brother, by one year, of the writer Robert Walser, and provided illustrations for Robert's first book Fritz Kocher's Aufsätze (1904). He was a close friend of German expressionist painter Max Beckmann, who strongly influenced his work."
tagline: "Swiss painter (1877-1943)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Karl_walser1897.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Switzerland"
  isoCode: "CH"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1877-04-08"
deathDate: "1943-09-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.5
  momentum:             15
  historical:           7.277616
  currentAttention:     96.54471544715446
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/3415220"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%B1"
    title: "كارل والسر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Walser"
    title: "Karl Walser"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Walser"
    title: "Karl Walser"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Walser"
    title: "Karl Walser"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Walser"
    title: "Karl Walser"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B6%E3%83%BC"
    title: "カール・ヴァルザー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB"
    title: "Вальзер, Карл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1733293"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump