Type Art museum Phone +41 52 267 51 62 | ||
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Location Winterthur, Switzerland Address Museumstrasse 52, 8400 Winterthur, Switzerland Hours Open today · 10AM–5PMSunday10AM–5PMMondayClosedTuesday10AM–8PMWednesday10AM–5PMThursday10AM–5PMFriday10AM–5PMSaturday10AM–5PM Artwork Under the Bridge at Hampton Court, Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin Similar Fotomuseum Winterthur, Kunsthaus Zürich, Museum of Fine Arts Bern, Fundación Oskar Reinhart, Kunstmuseum Basel Profiles | ||
Kunstmuseum winterthur antonio calderara 1903 1978
Kunstmuseum Winterthur (English: The Winterthur Museum of Art) is an art museum in Winterthur, Switzerland run by the local Kunstverein. From its beginnings, the activities of the Kunstverein Winterthur were focused on "contemporary art" - first Impressionism, then Post-Impressionism and especially Les Nabis, through post-World War II and recently created works by Richard Hamilton, Mario Merz and Gerhard Richter.
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Paul klee flowering 1934 kunstmuseum winterthur
Building
Architects Rittmeyer & Furrer designed the original museum in 1915, and a 1000 m2 modernist addition was designed by Gigon/Guyer in 1995.
The building also includes Winterthur's natural history museum and the Research Library (Studienbibliothek).
Collection
The main focus of the museum's collection has always been impressionism and post-impressionism. The impressionist gallery includes such notable works as:
A sculpture gallery includes works by Eugène Delacroix and Alberto Giacometti. The cubism section contains works by Pablo Picasso, Mondrian, and Gris, as well as one of the most important European collections of Fernand Léger.
More modern works include pieces by Mark Tobey, Ellsworth Kelly, Brice Marden, Andro Wekua and Pia Fries.