Kunsthaus Zürich

The Kunsthaus Zurich is a Swiss art museum in the immediate vicinity of the Schauspielhaus Zurich at home site.

Architectural History

1787 met for the first time that circle of artists and lovers, which spawned the Zurich Art Society. 1910, the museum was opened, was architect Karl Moser. Since then, the building has been expanded several times, and from 2001 to 2005 completely renovated.

By 2017, an extension with a floor space of 13000 square meters will be built, which corresponds to an enlargement of the Kunsthaus by more than 80 percent. A jury chaired by Walter Kielholz, president of the Zurich Art Society, opted for the British architectural firm of David Chipperfield. The extension will allow the Kunsthaus Zurich, to be able to show 20 instead of 10 percent of its collection as well as several exhibitions in parallel. In addition, arises with the influx of the Foundation Collection EC Buehrle, are provided for the approximately twelve percent of the floor space of the new building, a new focus of the collection of French Impressionism. The Zurich City Council (City Council ) approved on July 4, 2012, to a large extent by taxpayers' money to be financed extension, the referendum on 25 November of the same year also gave an affirmative result. Private patrons and sponsors control CHF 88 million to the total cost of CHF 206 million.

Collection

Today, the Kunsthaus Zurich boasts one of the most important art collections in Switzerland and presents attractive exhibitions. His high-caliber collection ranges from the 15th century to the present day:

Among the international priorities include the largest collection of Munch paintings outside of Norway as well as the most important and most extensive collection of works by Alberto Giacometti. Next can be found at the Kunsthaus images of Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet, Marc Chagall, Vincent van Gogh and the Expressionists Oskar Kokoschka, Max Beckmann and Lovis Corinth. In addition to the almost classic to be named Pop Art (such as Andy Warhol and Richard Hamilton) among others works by Mark Rothko, Mario Merz, Cy Twombly, Joseph Beuys and Georg Baselitz are represented.

Medieval sculptures and panel paintings (eg by Hans Leu the Elder ) as well as paintings of the Dutch and Italian Baroque (eg, Domenichino and Rembrandt van Rijn ) also belong to the collection as the zenith of Swiss painting of the 19th and 20th century by Johann Heinrich Füssli, Giovanni Segantini, Hodler Ferdinand or Félix Vallotton. Also Zurich Concrete (eg, Max Bill, Fritz Glarus, Verena Loewensberg ) and contemporary Swiss artists such as Pipilotti Rist and Peter Fischli / David Weiss, as well as photography and installations are represented.

For exhibition concept since 2006, including the presentation of important private collections, first under the title of Color the Merzbacher, 2010, Georg Emil Buehrle Collection and 2012 The Nahmad Collection owned by the art dealer Nahmad family.

There will be regularly scheduled events in which the museum with workshops, performances, music and tours offers a look behind the scenes.

Line

The management of the Zurich Kunsthaus, Christoph Becker. Deputy Director Chief Financial Officer Hans Peter Meier. The curators include Philippe Büttner, Bice Curiger, Mirjam Varadinis and Bernhard von Waldkirch (as of 2013).

Gallery

Bernese Nelkenmeister: John the Baptist in the Desert

Jacob van Ruisdael: View of Haarlem

Johann Heinrich Wüest: The Rhone Glacier, 1795

Henry Fuseli: The Silence, 1800

William Turner: The Devil's Bridge, St. Gotthard

Arnold Böcklin: The war

Rudolf Koller: Gotthardpost, 1873

Édouard Manet: The Escape of Rochefort

Claude Monet: The Parliament at sunset

Paul Cézanne: Le Mont St. Victoire

Henri Rousseau: At the edge of the forest

August Macke: Landscape with Cows and Camel

Auguste Rodin: The Gates of Hell, 1880-1917, gift of George Buehrle, 1947

Film

• Kunsthaus Zurich. Documentary, Germany, 2010 29:30 minutes, written and directed by Martina Klug, Production: SWR, 3sat, first broadcast December 5, 2010, Series: Museum Check with Markus Brock, Summary and video of 3sat, Sibylle Canonica with and Werner Spies.