Antoin Sevruguin was born in 1851 to Armenian parents in Iran, grew up in the Georgian city of Tiflis and later worked in Tehran. Nowadays, we would probably call him a “secondo”, a Swiss term referring to a second-generation immigrant.

The exhibition “Ragamala – Pictures for All Senses” presents fifty masterpieces of Ragamala painting and invites viewers to experience the interplay of imagery, music, poetry and fragrance for the first time.