Kunstmuseum Winterthur

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(Profile only availible in german - translated by machine)

The Winterthur Museum of Art has one of the most beautiful modern art collections in Switzerland with outstanding groups of works from the late 19th Century to the present. With the museum building of 1915 (Meyer & Furrer ride) and the extension opened in 1995 (Gigon & Guyer) has the collection of a startling development framework.

Support of the Art Museum was founded in 1848, the Kunstverein Winterthur; membership is open to everyone and offers numerous advantages. It supports the museum, founded in 1913 by the Gallery Association, Friends of the Kunstmuseum Winterthur, and in 1998 launched Jubilee Foundation Kunstverein Winterthur.

While the old building of the French art of the turn of the century (van Gogh, Monet, Bonnard, Vallotton) Cubism (Braque, Gris, Léger) and other strains of classical modern ism (Kandinsky, Klee, Magritte, Miro) is dedicated, is the extension to international Contemporary Art (Kelly, Marden, Mangold, Tuttle, Kounellis, Merz, judges, shaking, etc.) shown.

Parallel to the collection are in the Art Museum to see regular exhibitions of the same era as the collection - retrospectives of individual artists and thematic exhibitions. They are complemented by exhibitions of drawings and prints in the Graphic Cabinet .

represented artists

Cuno Amiet      Giovanni Anselmo      Karel Appel      Jean Arp      Richard Artschwager      René Auberjonois      Jo Baer      Max Bill      James Bishop      Arnold Böcklin      Pierre Bonnard      Constantin Brancusi      Georges Braque      Alexander Calder      Paul Cézanne      John Chamberlain      Lovis Corinth      Giorgio de Chirico      Nicolas de Staël      Adolf Dietrich      Raymond Duchamp-Villon      Luciano Fabro      Lucio Fontana      Pia Fries      Johann Heinrich Füssli      Giovanni Giacometti      Alberto Giacometti      Camille Graeser      Juan Gris      Phillip Guston      Jean Hélion      Eva Hesse      Ferdinand Hodler      Karl Hofer      Alexej von Jawlensky      Asger Jorn      Wassily Kandinsky      Alexander Kanoldt      Ellsworth Kelly      Paul Klee      Georg Kolbe      Rudolf Koller

Jannis Kounellis      Henri Laurens      Fernand Léger      Wilhelm Lehmbruck      Max Liebermann      Jacques Lipchitz      René Magritte      Aristide Maillol      Robert Mangold      Piero Manzoni      Brice Marden      Albert Marquet      Agnes Martin      Mario Merz      Joan Miró      Piet Mondrian      Giorgio Morandi      François Morellet      Giuseppe Penone      Antoine Pevsner      Pablo Picasso      Camille Pissarro      Odilon Redon      Pierre-Auguste Renoir      Gerhard Richter      Medardo Rosso      Mario Sala      Thomas Scheibitz      Oskar Schlemmer      Thomas Schütte      Sophie Taeuber-Arp      Richard Tuttle      Félix Vallotton      Theo van Doesburg      Vincent van Gogh      Bram van Velde      Maurice de Vlaminck      Lawrence Weiner

Exhibitions