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Museum of Fine Arts Bern Museum of Fine Arts Bern
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The Kunstmuseum Bern is Switzerland's oldest fine art museum with a permanent collection ranging from Gothic times to the present. With currently over 3000 paintings and sculptures as well as around 48,000 drawings, prints, photographs, videos and films, it boasts not only one of Switzerland's leading collections but also international renown. The great diversity of its collection, including works by Ferdinand Hodler, Paul Klee, Albert Anker, Pablo Picasso, Franz Gertsch, Vincent van Gogh, Meret Oppenheim and many more, has secured the Kunstmuseum Bern an outstanding reputation worldwide. Large groups of works by Bernhard Luginbühl, Markus Raetz, Urs Lüthi, Dieter Roth and Sigmar Polke represent contemporary approaches.
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Salvador Dalí (1904 – 1989), Atavisms of Twilight (Compulisive Idea) 1933
Dali’s cryptic painting is based on a picture executed by Millet. The famous surrealist transformed the idyllic landscape into a scene of horror, filling it with macabre eroticism.
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864 – 1901), Mrs. Misia Natanson at the Piano, 1897
Misia Natanson was Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s friend and muse. He painted her portrait nine times in all. Find out more about this artist, who descended from an old aristocratic family, and the pianist from Saint Petersburg, who was the patroness of numerous other artists such as Renoir, Vallotton and Bonnard.
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Alexandre Calame (1810 – 1864), The Grand Eiger, 1844
Alexandre Calame’s painting is firmly rooted in the romantic tradition. Find out more about his painting of the Eiger and why this artist from western Switzerland traveled to the Bernese Oberland.
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Louis Moilliet (1880 – 1962), At the Music-Hall, 1913
The composition of Louis Moilliet’s richly colored painting is highly sophisticated. Find out more about this artist, who was born in Bern, and very unjustly destined to be overshadowed by his friends Paul Klee and August Macke. He accompanied them on a trip to Tunisia in 1914.
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Chaim Soutine (1893 – 1943), Flayed Beef, 1926
Find out more about Chaim Soutine’s expressive painted masterpiece depicting a slaughtered ox. And about the painter too, who was friends with both Modigliani and Chagall. He lived and worked in the La Ruche studio collective in Paris.
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Johannes Itten (1888 – 1967), Composition in Blue, 1918
Find out more about Johannes Itten, who was born in Emmental and was a Bauhaus teacher and “master.” This abstract painting demonstrates Itten’s theory of color and design in practice, which proved groundbreaking for developments in modern art.