Works from the Collection From the Late Medieval Period to Vincent van Gogh, from Pablo Picasso to Meret Oppenheim
The Kunstmuseum Bern owns an important collection of European art from the late Middle Ages to the present. The current presentation of the collection shows a selection of around 150 outstanding works of Swiss and European art from the late 15th century until the 21st century.
In the basement of the historical Stettler building the central avant-garde trends of modern art are represented with Cubism, Expressionism, Surrealism and abstract art. Highlights include Pablo Picasso鈥檚 Un violon accroch茅 au mur (Hermann und Margrit Rupf-Stiftung), Ad Parnassum by Paul Klee (Verein der Freunde) and Piet Mondrians Tableau no II, 1925 (with Black and Grey).
The ground floor of the Stettler building is devoted to 19th-century Swiss art. Here there are works by Arnold B枚cklin, Ferdinand Hodler鈥檚 large format works Der Auserw盲hlte (The Chosen One) and Die entt盲uschten Seelen (The Disappointed Souls) and paintings by Albert Anker, famous for his realistic genre scenes. A small selection of late medieval works provides a glimpse of the artistic work of the Bern reformist and statesman Niklaus Manuel.
The first floor, featuring works by Paul C茅zanne, Claude Monet and Vincent van Gogh, shows the very greatest names of international art history. Many of the Impressionist and post-Impressionist works come from the outstanding collection of the Hahnloser/Jaeggli Foundation, which has been housed in the Kunstmuseum Bern for some years. This includes, for example, Effet de glace ou Le tub by Pierre Bonnard, Amazone by 脡douard Manet and Le semeur by Vincent van Gogh. Works by the Swiss artists Cuno Amiet and Giovanni Giacometti complete the presentation as representatives of Swiss modern art.
The basement of the Atelier 5 buildings brings together paintings by famous representatives of Abstract Expressionism 鈥� for example Jackson Pollock鈥檚 Brown and Silver II and Lee Krasner鈥檚 Forest no 2 鈥� with works by more recent artists such as Maria Lassnig and Bridget Riley.
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The Kunstmuseum Bern owns an important collection of European art from the late Middle Ages to the present. The current presentation of the collection shows a selection of around 150 outstanding works of Swiss and European art from the late 15th century until the 21st century.
In the basement of the historical Stettler building the central avant-garde trends of modern art are represented with Cubism, Expressionism, Surrealism and abstract art. Highlights include Pablo Picasso鈥檚 Un violon accroch茅 au mur (Hermann und Margrit Rupf-Stiftung), Ad Parnassum by Paul Klee (Verein der Freunde) and Piet Mondrians Tableau no II, 1925 (with Black and Grey).
The ground floor of the Stettler building is devoted to 19th-century Swiss art. Here there are works by Arnold B枚cklin, Ferdinand Hodler鈥檚 large format works Der Auserw盲hlte (The Chosen One) and Die entt盲uschten Seelen (The Disappointed Souls) and paintings by Albert Anker, famous for his realistic genre scenes. A small selection of late medieval works provides a glimpse of the artistic work of the Bern reformist and statesman Niklaus Manuel.
The first floor, featuring works by Paul C茅zanne, Claude Monet and Vincent van Gogh, shows the very greatest names of international art history. Many of the Impressionist and post-Impressionist works come from the outstanding collection of the Hahnloser/Jaeggli Foundation, which has been housed in the Kunstmuseum Bern for some years. This includes, for example, Effet de glace ou Le tub by Pierre Bonnard, Amazone by 脡douard Manet and Le semeur by Vincent van Gogh. Works by the Swiss artists Cuno Amiet and Giovanni Giacometti complete the presentation as representatives of Swiss modern art.
The basement of the Atelier 5 buildings brings together paintings by famous representatives of Abstract Expressionism 鈥� for example Jackson Pollock鈥檚 Brown and Silver II and Lee Krasner鈥檚 Forest no 2 鈥� with works by more recent artists such as Maria Lassnig and Bridget Riley.
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