#adrien deriaz

I promised more of the Deriaz brothers when last I shared a photograph from this family of remarkable strongmen. Here is another picture of Adrien, published in the magazine La Culture Physique, 1905, when he placed second in a competition for ‘physical beauty’, the precursor to body building contests later in the century. The winner was a fellow called Paul Gasquet, but I haven’t been able to find a photograph to prove his superiority!

Adrien Deriaz, Swiss strongman, photographed at the turn of the last century at the height of his fame. Unusually, for physique photographs in this era, he does not wear the customary leaf to protect his modesty. One of his brothers, Maurice, has featured here before, I shall see if I can find any more of them for you!