Art Museum Thun
The Art Museum Thun is located in the former Hotel Thunerhof in Thun in the Swiss canton of Bern . The museum presents mainly contemporary art in five to six large changing exhibitions each year .
program
At the Kunstmuseum Thun, the public encounters important international and national trends. For example, the Kunstmuseum Thun presented Christian Marclay with a solo exhibition or realized the first large retrospective of the artist sisters Claudia & Julia Müller . Gianni Motti and Christoph Büchel realized the “Cadeaux diplomatiques” project in Thun. The exhibition “Images of Society” dealt with social and political statements in art. Again and again, exhibitions enable a dialogue between art of the past and art of the present. Contemporary works are examined for their historical roots. The Kunstmuseum Thun and its art education program is aimed at a wide audience of all ages.
Thun panorama
The Thun Panorama in the Schadaupark belongs to the art museum . The life-size picture of a small town around 1810 was sketched by the artist Marquard Wocher while sitting on a roof in the middle of Thun's old town. This perspective still allows the audience to take a look into living rooms, classrooms and alleys.
History of the collection
In the 1940s, the painter Alfred Glaus, former councilor Fritz Lehner and former city president Paul Kunz tried to find a suitable exhibition space for the then existing urban cultural assets. In the summer of 1948, an art commission was elected, chaired by Fritz Lehner, which entrusted Alfred Glaus with the organization, maintenance and management of the collection.
Since 1949, the Thun Art Museum has been located in the former Grand Hotel Thunerhof, in the city center directly on the Aare.
The collection was based on a series of paintings from the various departments of the city administration. An extensive collection of graphic sheets came to the museum as a gift from the Landamtmann Carl Friedrich Ludwig Lohner . This was later followed by a collection of Thun vedutas (mainly Swiss minor masters) as well as hand drawings and graphic works by the Thun painter Werner Engel . The work of the painter Fred Hopf could be acquired as an estate.
Private donations supplemented the collection: in 1950 and 1956, Hans Lüthi-Hefti was the first donor in Thun to transfer parts of his collection. In 1957 Alfred Glaus gave his complete lithographic work to the museum, and in 1990 the art museum received another gift from the painter's heirs. The first loans from the federal government were made in 1959, and gifts from artists were added later. The Friends of the Thun Art Museum have made numerous acquisitions possible since it was founded in 1959. There were also deposits and donations from Karl Geiser and Ernst Morgenthaler (1971), Fred Stauffer and Ruth Stauffer (1972), Olga and Ruth Mayser (1976), Victor Surbek and Marguerite Frey-Surbek (1977/81), Rudolf Mumprecht (1981) , Knud Jacobsen (2018) and many others.
In addition to the holdings of small Swiss masters (Lory, Aberli, Lafond, Wocher, Weibel and others), the Thun Art Museum owns works by Swiss artists from the 19th and 20th centuries. These include artists such as Ferdinand Hodler , Cuno Amiet , René Auberjonois , Klara Borter , Paul Klee , Otto Morach , Stefan Haenni , Johannes Itten , Alfred Glaus, Otto Nebel , Varlin and Meret Oppenheim . Another focus of the collection are works of Swiss Pop Art and photorealism . The collection is also continuously expanded to include works by contemporary artists, such as Balthasar Burkhard , Karim Noureldin , Claudia & Julia Müller or Lutz / Guggisberg.
Acquisitions by artists from the region also shape the collection. The monochrome works by Peter Willen (* 1941) or the photographs by the Thun artist Chantal Michel (* 1968) are part of the collection of over 5,000 works. The Kunstmuseum Thun does not show its collection in a permanent exhibition. The hotel accommodated guests from all over the world in around 100 rooms with 200 beds.
History of the Thunerhof
The Grandhotel Thunerhof, which opened in 1875, was built by the Thun construction company according to plans by the architect Paul Adolphe Tièche from Bern. It was a hotel building in French neo-renaissance forms with a length of 60 meters, a width of 30 meters and the height of the main building was 20 meters. The hotel had to be closed in 1934. In 1942 the city of Thun took over the Thunerhof. Since it was founded in 1948, the Thun Art Museum has been located on the ground floor of the Thunerhof.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Thunerhof. City of Thun, accessed December 20, 2018 .
Coordinates: 46 ° 45 '21.4 " N , 7 ° 38' 2.2" E ; CH1903: six hundred fourteen thousand nine hundred twenty-three / 178324