Toni Mair (born 1940)

Portrait Toni Mair

Toni Mair, a former high school teacher for geography and geology, passionately creates alpine landscape models made of plaster. Several dozen models of beauty came into existence (full list). Most of them are nature-like or geologically coloured. One of his masterpieces is the relief of Canton Aargau with its huge dimension of 23m2. It is displayed at the museum naturama in Aarau. In addition, Toni Mair restores models for museums and exhibitions, e.g. Imhofs Bietschhorn relief [2].

More information at www.mair-relief.ch

  Relief Dent Blanche

Dent Blanche (Switzerland) 1:5,000, 104 x 115 cm, Toni Mair, 2005, copies are displayed at Focus Terra exhibition in Zurich, and at Cabane de la Dent Blanche.
Engelberg relief
Eiger north face relief
Semien National Park, Ethiopia

[1] Mair, Toni. Grieder Susanne. Das Landschaftsrelief – Symbiose von Wissenschaft und Kunsthandwerk. Mit Schweizer Reliefkatalog. Verlag hier+jetzt. Baden, Schweiz. 2006. S.176.

[2] Räber, Stefan. Le relief du Bietschhorn – Restauration d'une montagne. Les Alpes, 11/2006. Club Alpin Suisse CAS, Berne, p.36-37. 2006, pdf.