Plinio Colombi (1873-1951) studied at the Technikum in Winterthur. After a stay in Paris, he worked as a decorative painter in Bern and, from 1897, exclusively as a freelance artist. Colombi lived and worked in Paris, Bern, Belgium, Jaunpass, Peccia in the Maggia Valley, Kirchdorf near Wichtrach and finally Spiez, where the artist died.