Trained in architecture, like his cousin Le Corbusier, Soutter was a professional musican, art educator and polymath, whose increasingly eccentric behaviour led to enforced hospitalisation. In the 1920s Soutter initiated a dense, cross-hatched oeuvre, sometimes filling the margins of published volumes. Following the onset of arthritis, he resorted to finger-painting. These haunted and quasi-religious figures are his most widely known works today