Briner and Kern collection

The Briner and Kern Collection was housed in the Briner and Kern Museum in the town hall of Winterthur from 1970 to October 31, 2014 . The paintings of the Jakob Briner Foundation have been exhibited in a separate wing of the Oskar Reinhart Museum since October 2016 .

One focus of the museum was the collection of Jakob Briner (1882–1967), a customs officer, which mainly comprised 17th century Dutch paintings . He bequeathed his collection in the form of a foundation to the city of Winterthur in the will that a museum should emerge from it. Shortly before his death, he learned that his collection could be housed in the Winterthur town hall , where it could be seen until the museum closed on October 31, 2014.

The second part was the donation from Emil S. Kern (1914–2014). It contained portrait miniatures from all eras from the 16th to the 19th century, which Kern bequeathed to the city of Winterthur in 1998. The collection is located in the Oskar Reinhart Museum , where rooms for the collection will be renovated after 2015. In 2018, the Jakob Briner Foundation was canceled after it donated its collection to the Kunstverein Winterthur .

Works

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  Lucas Cranach the Elder Ä. , Abraham and Isaac on the way

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  Egbert van der Poel : Seashore by Moonlight

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  Emanuel de Witte : Nieuwe Kerk in Delft with the tomb of William of Orange

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  Anton Graff : portrait of his wife Auguste Graff.

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  Anton Graff: Portrait of Elector Friedrich August III.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Todesangeboteportal.ch - Death notices about Emil Samuel Kern. Retrieved May 9, 2016.
2. ↑ winterthur-tourismus.ch ( memento of the original from September 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ One step from the mausoleum to a modern museum (landbote.ch)
4. ↑ The Jakob Briner Foundation canceled

literature

• Winterthur Museum Briner and Kern: The world of portrait miniatures. Masterpieces from the Emil S. Kern collection , Benteli 2007, ISBN 978-3716514856

Web links

Commons : Collection Briner and Kern  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the Briner and Kern Museum ( Memento from August 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
• City of Winterthur
• The Landbote of November 1, 2014: Death of a museum
• Friends of the Museum Oskar Reinhart
• ORANJE! Museum Oskar Reinhart: Masterpieces of Dutch painting from November 29, 2014 to April 5, 2015
• Women and the female touch

Coordinates: 47 ° 30 '1.4 "  N , 8 ° 43' 44.4"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred and ninety-seven thousand two hundred twenty-two  /  261871