KMW | Beim Stadthaus EN Kunst Museum Winterthur
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Discover the Masterpieces at Kunst Museum Winterthur: From the Golden Age of Dutch Painting to Contemporary Art.
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Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Relief rectangulaire, cercles découpés, rondelles sur tiges, 1963
Sophie Taeuber-Arp is one of the most important representatives of Classical Modernism and is considered a pioneer of abstraction.
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Alberto Giacometti, The Glade, 1950
Alberto Giacometti was in Geneva during the Second World War. In 1945 he returned to Paris. His old studio was still intact and he could have simply continued working.
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Giorgio Morandi, Still Lifes and Landscape, 1961
Secluded, Giorgio Morandi lived and worked in Bologna. He specialized in still lifes on small format canvases.
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Hans Arp, Skeleton, 1928
The Alsace artist, Hans Arp, had already played a central role as artist and poet in the Dadaist movements in Zürich and Paris. Humour and irony also characterised his later work, especially the reliefs.
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Alexander Calder, Untitled, 1934-1939
In 1926 Alexander Calder left America and went to Paris where the most important new artists of the time were working. His encounter with the Dutchman Piet Mondrian was groundbreaking.
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Giorgio de Chirico, Self-Portrait, 1924
The Italian Giorgio de Chirico painted his mysterious pictures in Paris before the First World War. He called his art “Pittura metafisica,” a style that had great influence on European painting.