Nicolas Markovitch - Swiss alpine village.

Nicolas Markovitch (Serbian-French, 1894-1964), artist, watercolorist, architect, and printer. Markovitch used several pseudonyms throughout his career, including A. Marc or simply Marc, and J. Philippe or Jean Philippe. Markovitch was an architect who lived and worked in France and is best known for his architectural paintings of city buildings, cathedrals, and monuments, along with Swiss, Italian, German, English, and Belgian landscapes, cityscapes, mountain landscapes and seascapes, marine and seaside scenes, and many scenes of the United States.


He was one of the finest watercolorists of his time and worked extensively with the Stehli Brothers company, Stehli Frères, Editeurs, Zurich, Switzerland, in the 1930s and 1940s. Stehli Frères published numerous watercolor series of his works, printed in various sizes.

Stehli Frères' lithographs were usually printed on beautiful, heavier watercolor-like paper with rough edges to give the appearance of a true watercolor, and were produced to a very high lithographic quality at the time. The print quality was so good that many people over the years, even today, believed them to be original works of art.