Radio Chablais – For the painter Willy Läng, the village of Château-d’Oex is a life-size canvas

Antoni Da Campo

Pays-d’EnHaut

November 19, 2024

Updated: November 19, 2024

• Willy Läng expresses his attachment to the region through his paintings. Here, in front of its winter landscape representing the emblematic Gummfluh.

The village of Château-d’Oex is gradually transforming into an open-air museum.

For 40 years, the artist Willy Läng has tirelessly painted the facades of certain local houses. While strolling through the hamlet, passers-by can admire its monumental mountainous landscapes and other traditional colorful mountain pasture climbs.

With more than thirty frescoes and a hundred outdoor works to his name, the creative has recently been nicknamed “the Banksy of Pays-d’Enhaut” by the locals. But the primary activity of this octogenarian painter remains the creation of poyas on wood.

Creations that he creates to measure for his many clients from Switzerland and abroad. It was in his studio, a paintbrush in hand, that Willy Läng looked back on his long artistic career and his love for the region at the microphone of Antoni Da Campo.

The creations of Willy Läng can also be discovered during a walk at Laitemaire above Château-d’Oex. Over more than a kilometer, around a hundred wild animals and cartoon characters hide in the middle of nature.