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Kunst Museum Winterthur•www.kmw.ch
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Discover the Masterpieces at Kunst Museum Winterthur: From the Golden Age of Dutch Painting to Contemporary Art.
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Alberto Giacometti, The Glade, 1950

Alberto Giacometti was in Geneva during the Second World War. In 1945 he returned to Paris. His old studio was still intact and he could have simply continued working.

Nov 21, 2019•2 min

Hans Arp, Skeleton, 1928

The Alsace artist, Hans Arp, had already played a central role as artist and poet in the Dadaist movements in Zürich and Paris. Humour and irony also characterised his later work, especially the reliefs.

Nov 21, 2019•2 min

Alexander Calder, Untitled, 1934-1939

In 1926 Alexander Calder left America and went to Paris where the most important new artists of the time were working. His encounter with the Dutchman Piet Mondrian was groundbreaking.

Nov 21, 2019•2 min

Giorgio de Chirico, Self-Portrait, 1924

The Italian Giorgio de Chirico painted his mysterious pictures in Paris before the First World War. He called his art “Pittura metafisica,” a style that had great influence on European painting.

Nov 21, 2019•2 min

Juan Gris, Pierrot, 1919

The presence of Cubist paintings by Picasso and Braque was exceptionally strong even before the First World War. The Spaniard Juan Gris discovered the foundations of his work within them, but nevertheless developed his own, quite individual style, which led him to a strictly classical pictorial design.

Nov 21, 2019•2 min

Fernand Léger, The Balcony, 1914

Fernand Léger was not a painter of finely nuanced colour tones like Robert Delaunay, and he also wasn’t a strict Cubist like Braque and Picasso. Léger was a painter of expressive contrasts: colour, line and form come into direct conflict in his pictures.

Nov 21, 2019•2 min

Pierre Bonnard, The Orange Light Shade, 1908

Alongside Edouard Vuillard, Pierre Bonnard became the leading painter of intimate interiors at the beginning of the 20th century. They had a mutual interest in the refined use of colour in the rooms.

Nov 21, 2019•2 min

Eduard Vuillard, Woman Reading, 1910

All his life Edouard Vuillard’s studio was in the apartment that he shared with his mother. Life and painting were closely related and his choice of models was no exception.

Nov 21, 2019•2 min

Edouard Vuillard, Grandmother and Child, 1899

In around 1890 some young painters came together under the name of the “Nabis,” among them were, Pierre Bonnard, Maurice Denis, Félix Vallotton and Edouard Vuillard. They sought new ideas for the art of painting.

Nov 21, 2019•2 min

Fernand Léger, Still Life, 1927

After the First World War Fernand Léger's work changed; the animated, fragmented compositions made way for a new form. A cool order determined his works.

May 02, 2013•2 min

Pablo Picasso, Two Women, 1934

Pablo Picasso was fond of painting the motifs he was working with in a series. Every day he would take the subject in hand and paint a new version of it.

Jan 16, 2013•2 min

Félix Vallotton, View of Honfleur, 1910

In 1909 Vallotton rented a villa in Honfleur on the coast of Normandy as a summer residence. This marked the beginning of a new chapter in his painting; in the years that followed he turned his attention to landscape painting.

Sep 20, 2012•2 min

Félix Vallotton, The Models at Rest, 1905

Bonnard, Vuillard and Félix Vallotton belonged to the circle of Nabis painters. Among them Vallotton was “le nabi étranger”, the stranger from the Canton of Vaud, and also the outsider.

Sep 20, 2012•3 min

Henri Rousseau, To Celebrate the Baby!, 1903

This portrait of a child by Henri Rousseau is supposed to have been a contracted picture. From early on, both the picture and its artist were surrounded by myths.

Aug 30, 2012•2 min

Alfred Sisley, Under Hampton Court Bridge, 1874

Impressionism was born in 1874. An exhibition was organised in Paris under the title of “première exposition impressionniste,” which launched a new style of painting and caused a sensation.

Aug 09, 2012•2 min

Vincent van Gogh, Summer Evening, 1888

Vincent van Gogh became familiar with Impressionism in Paris. When he arrived in Arles in 1888 this encounter lay in the past and he was looking for new mediums of expression.

Jul 19, 2012•2 min

René Magritte, The Lost World, 1928

During the 1920s Brussels and Antwerp were two important centres of Avant-garde. A circle of literati gathered around the painter René Magritte in Brussels.

Jun 28, 2012•2 min

Constantin Brancusi, Danaïde, ca. 1913

In 1904 Constantin Brancusi walked all the way from Romania to Paris, where he first worked for Auguste Rodin for a time, but he didn’t endure the overpowering master for long.

May 16, 2012•2 min

Paul Klee, Flowering, 1934

Robert Delauney’s window pictures impressed Paul Klee, but it took a long time for Klee to find his own way to incorporate this enthusiasm in his own works.

Jan 12, 2012•2 min
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