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.

Recent Episodes

  • Salvador Dalí (1904 – 1989), Atavisms of Twilight (Compulisive Idea) 1933

    10 years ago
  • Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864 – 1901), Mrs. Misia Natanson at the Piano, 1897

    10 years ago
  • Alexandre Calame (1810 – 1864), The Grand Eiger, 1844

    10 years ago
  • Louis Moilliet (1880 – 1962), At the Music-Hall, 1913

    10 years ago
  • Chaim Soutine (1893 – 1943), Flayed Beef, 1926

    10 years ago
  • Johannes Itten (1888 – 1967), Composition in Blue, 1918

    10 years ago
  • Piet Mondrian (1872 – 1944), Painting No. II with Grey and Black, 1925

    10 years ago
  • Max Ernst (1891 – 1976), Forest and Sun (Nocturnal Landscape), 1928

    10 years ago
  • Hans Arp (1886 – 1966), Duo Painting based on a collaborative drawing with Sophie Taeuber

    11 years ago
  • Adolf Wölfli (1864 – 1930), General=View of the Island Neveranger, 1911

    11 years ago