Works from the Collection. From the Late Medieval Period to Vincent van Gogh, from Pablo Picasso to Meret Oppenheim
The Kunstmuseum Bern owns a significant collection of European art spanning the period from the Late Middle Ages to the present. The current exhibition on three floors of the historic Stettler building features a selection of around 140 important works from the collection by Swiss and European artists, ranging from the late fifteenth century to the 1970s.
On the lower level, Cubism, Expressionism, Surrealism and abstract art represent the central avant-garde currents of modernism. Highlights include Pablo Picasso鈥檚 Un violon accroch茅 au mur (Hermann and Margrit Rupf Foundation), Ad Parnassum by Paul Klee (Verein der Freunde) and Piet Mondrian鈥檚 Tableau no II, 1925 (with Black and Grey). Also on view is a selection of works by the Bernese artist Adolf W枚lfli from the collection of the Adolf W枚lfli Foundation.
The ground floor is devoted to Swiss art from the nineteenth century. On display are works by Arnold B枚cklin, Ferdinand Hodler鈥檚 large-format The Day and The Night, and paintings by Albert Anker, famed for realistic genre scenes. A small selection of late medieval works offers a glimpse of the art of the Bernese reformer and statesman Niklaus Manuel.
Awaiting visitors upstairs are some of the greatest names in international art history: Paul C茅zanne, Claude Monet and Vincent van Gogh. Many of the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works on view come from the outstanding holdings of the Hahnloser/Jaeggli Foundation, which has been based at the Kunstmuseum Bern for several years. These include Effet de glace ou Le tub by Pierre Bonnard, Amazone by Edouard Manet and, as a special highlight, the Foundation鈥檚 recent acquisition Le Caf茅 de nuit 脿 Arles by Vincent van Gogh. Works by the protagonists of Swiss modernism Cuno Amiet and Giovanni Giacometti round out the presentation.
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The Kunstmuseum Bern owns a significant collection of European art spanning the period from the Late Middle Ages to the present. The current exhibition on three floors of the historic Stettler building features a selection of around 140 important works from the collection by Swiss and European artists, ranging from the late fifteenth century to the 1970s.
On the lower level, Cubism, Expressionism, Surrealism and abstract art represent the central avant-garde currents of modernism. Highlights include Pablo Picasso鈥檚 Un violon accroch茅 au mur (Hermann and Margrit Rupf Foundation), Ad Parnassum by Paul Klee (Verein der Freunde) and Piet Mondrian鈥檚 Tableau no II, 1925 (with Black and Grey). Also on view is a selection of works by the Bernese artist Adolf W枚lfli from the collection of the Adolf W枚lfli Foundation.
The ground floor is devoted to Swiss art from the nineteenth century. On display are works by Arnold B枚cklin, Ferdinand Hodler鈥檚 large-format The Day and The Night, and paintings by Albert Anker, famed for realistic genre scenes. A small selection of late medieval works offers a glimpse of the art of the Bernese reformer and statesman Niklaus Manuel.
Awaiting visitors upstairs are some of the greatest names in international art history: Paul C茅zanne, Claude Monet and Vincent van Gogh. Many of the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works on view come from the outstanding holdings of the Hahnloser/Jaeggli Foundation, which has been based at the Kunstmuseum Bern for several years. These include Effet de glace ou Le tub by Pierre Bonnard, Amazone by Edouard Manet and, as a special highlight, the Foundation鈥檚 recent acquisition Le Caf茅 de nuit 脿 Arles by Vincent van Gogh. Works by the protagonists of Swiss modernism Cuno Amiet and Giovanni Giacometti round out the presentation.
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