Am Römerholz

The Oskar Reinhart Collection " Am Römerholz ' is an art museum in Winterthur in the canton of Zurich.

History

Originally from a wealthy merchant family Oskar Reinhart enjoyed in his youth a musical education. His father Theodore Reinhart promoted Swiss artist and his older brother George had begun to build its own art collection. 1906 saw Oskar Reinhart in Berlin organized by Hugo von Tschudi, Alfred Lichtwark and Julius Meier -Graefe Centennial Exhibition German art from 1775 to 1875. This exhibition coined initially collecting activities Reinhart's, so he put a significant collection of German, Austrian and Swiss art. Among the outstanding works, which he had acquired from this area include Caspar David Friedrich Chalk Cliffs on Rügen such as Wilhelm Leibl village politicians. This collection was donated Reinhart 1951, the city of Winterthur and is now on display at the Museum Oskar Reinhart.

In Berlin, Reinhart also saw the scale of Hugo von Tschudi collection of French Impressionists at the National Gallery. The selection of images was there as well as Julius Meier -Graefe in 1904 published three-volume history of development of modern art formative for the construction of its second collection. After the death of his father in 1919 by the expansion of this collection began first by consulting the Paris-based Winterthur painter Carl Monday. 1924, Reinhart retired from business and devoted himself exclusively to the structure of the collection. In the same year he acquired the Geneva-based architect Maurice Turrettini built from 1913 to 1915 for the industrialist Henri Ziegler Sulzer Villa " On Römerholz". For now grown collection of paintings Reinhart was informed by the same architect add your own gallery tract. After the collection was exhibited in the 1930s, already in various Swiss museums, bequeathed Oskar Reinhart 1958 bequeathed the mansion and the collection of the Swiss Confederation. After the death of Oskar Reinhart 1965 made ​​minor alterations and 1970 could be the museum open to the public. A special feature in the will is the disposition that the images should never leave the villa at Römerholz, so do not be loaned to exhibitions.

Collection

The collection has its focus on artists of French painting of the 19th century. Among the painters represented include David, Géricault, Ingres, Delacroix, Corot, Millet, Daumier, Courbet, Renoir, Sisley, Monet, Pissarro, Gauguin, Manet, Degas, Cézanne, Toulouse- Lautrec, van Gogh, Vuillard, Utrillo and Picasso. Furthermore, the sculptor Aristide Maillol can be seen with some of his sculptures in the villa Römerholz. A small group of old master paintings includes works by Holbein the Younger, Grünewald, neck, Cranach the Elder, Bassano, Rubens, Poussin, El Greco, Chardin, Goya, Fragonard, Lorrain, Quentin Massys, Gerard David, Francesco Guardi and Jacopo Tintoretto.

Oskar Reinhart had seen almost all of Europe's major museums and knew many private collections. His trained eye was focused on the quality of the individual works and not to the mere accumulation of well-known names. For example, he had Edouard Manet Au Café in 1923 admired in the collection of Otto Gerstenberg in Berlin, but was able to purchase it in 1953. On the occasion of the exhibition of his collection in Bern 1939, Oskar Reinhart expressed: " Do such works legally also be an individual as its own, in a higher sense but they include the general public, and their owners must be understood solely as a trustee. "

Exhibited Works

Frans Hals: Reading boy

El Greco: Portrait of Kardinalinquisitors Fernando Niño de Guevara

Lucas Cranach the Elder: . Portrait of Anna Cuspinian

Honoré Daumier: Homecoming of the market

Paul Cézanne: The " Château Noir " behind trees

Edgar Degas: Dancer in her box

Henri de Toulouse- Lautrec: La Clownesse Cha -U- Ka -O In Moulin Rouge

The Oskar Reinhart Collection " Am Römerholz ' is part of the network" Private Art Collections ".

Special

Corot: L ' Armoire secrète - A Reading from the context

The study exhibition until May 15, showed of 4 February 2011 2011 works of the painter Jean -Baptiste Camille Corot in the context of his painting Girl Reading, which owned the Oskar Reinhart Collection " Am Römerholz " is located.

This character image was shown together with selected loans from the French painter from national and international collections and museums; was brought together for the first time since 1962, when a similar exhibition at the Musée du Louvre.