Kunstmuseum St. Gallen

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Built in 1877 from Johann Christoph Kunkler's architectural plans, the Kunstmuseum St.Gallen is one of Switzerland's outstanding classicist buildings. In its function as a visual archive for the region of eastern Switzerland, it houses an important collection of valuable paintings and sculptures from the late Middle Ages to the present that is supplemented and kept update by an attractive program of changing exhibitions.

The collection of the Kunstmuseum St.Gallen can boast - along with significant prints by Dürer, Rembrandt and Callot - of a first artistic highpoint in 17th century Dutch and Flemish painting with fine works by Teniers, Ruysdael and de Heem. Nineteenth century Swiss, German and French painting is represented by masterpieces from Romanticism to Impressionism - namely, Spitzweg to Böcklin, Delacroix to Monet - while art from the turn of the century is also well documented, thanks to significant work groups by Hodler and his followers as well as to select paintings by Liebermann, Corinth and Von Stuck. The section on modern art encompasses excellent paintings and drawings by Kirchner, Taeuber-Arp, Klee, Warhol as well as choice installations by Merz, Serra, Paik, Signer and Rist.

represented artists

Cuno Amiet      John M. Armleder      Yael Bartana      Arnold Böcklin      Candice Breitz      Christoph Büchel      Lovis Corinth      Gustave Courbet      Edgar Degas      Helmut Federle      Günther Förg      Bernard Frize      Giovanni Giacometti      Marcia Hafif      Alexander Hahn      Ernst Ludwig Kirchner      Imi Knoebel      Max Liebermann      Urs Lüthi      Manon      Matthew McCaslin      Mario Merz

Claude Monet      Olivier Mosset      Edvard Munch      Shahryar Nashat      Nam June Paik      Camille Pissarro      David Reed      Pierre-Auguste Renoir      Pipilotti Rist      Karin Sander      Roman Signer      Keith Sonnier      Jessica Stockholder      Beat Streuli      Franz von Stuck      Sophie Taeuber-Arp      Teresa Hubbard & Alexander Birchler      Hannah Villiger      Erwin Wurm