Museum of Fine Arts Berne

The Kunstmuseum Bern is an art museum in Bern. It was opened in 1879.

History

The building

The present building of the Art Museum at the Hodlerstrasse 8-12 was built from 1876 to 1878 under Eugen Stettler and 1879 related. On the facade make two round medallions of Raphael Christians Zeus and Minerva dar. From 1932 to 1936, an extension was erected under the architect Karl Indermühle Salvisberg and Brechbühl, and a second extension, instead of the so-called Salvisberg - building, took place in 1983 by the Berne Atelier 5 Another attachment for the large collection of contemporary art is being planned.

The Collection

The basis for the collection are a dozen paintings that were acquired in 1821 by the Canton of Bern. Other priorities are today the Italian Trecento (eg, Duccio di Buoninsegna ), Bernese art since the 15th century ( Niklaus Manuel, Albert Anker, Ferdinand Hodler ), French art of Eugène Delacroix and Gustave Courbet to Salvador Dalí and André Masson, German Expressionism by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and newer art movements of Jackson Pollock to the present.

In the Kunstmuseum Bern is the estate of Adolf Wölfli. A second estate, much of the work of Paul Klee, was transferred to the Zentrum Paul Klee, which opened on 20 June 2005. But works of the artist are still in the inventory of the collection, such as his masterpiece from 1932, Ad Parnassum.

Represented by one or more plants in the Kunstmuseum Bern are also:

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