Art Museum Winterthur - Reinhart am Stadtgarten

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Art Museum Winterthur - Reinhart am Stadtgarten. Back, city garden

The Art Museum Winterthur | Reinhart am Stadtgarten , formerly Museum Oskar Reinhart , is an art museum in Winterthur in the Swiss canton of Zurich . Since 2018 it has been run by the Kunstverein Winterthur under the umbrella of the Kunst Museum Winterthur together with the former Kunstmuseum Winterthur and the Villa Flora , which is currently being renovated.

history

Oskar Reinhart grew up in a wealthy and art-loving merchant family in Winterthur. His father Theodor Reinhart supported artists such as Ferdinand Hodler , Karl Hofer and Hermann Haller , while his brother Georg collected European and Asian art. His brother Hans was interested in literature and theater and the fourth son Werner supported composers such as Igor Stravinsky , Arnold Schönberg , Anton Webern , Alban Berg , Paul Hindemith and Richard Strauss as well as the poet Rainer Maria Rilke .

In 1906, Oskar Reinhart saw the exhibition of the century of German art from 1775 to 1875 organized by Hugo von Tschudi , Alfred Lichtwark and Julius Meier-Graefe in Berlin. This exhibition shaped Reinhart's collecting activities, so that he himself had an important collection of German, Austrian and Swiss art from the 19th century . Century. At the same time, a second collection was created with works by old masters and the French impressionists. The growing collections soon reached a size that made it impossible to accommodate them appropriately in their own home.

As early as 1930 Reinhart started talking to the city of Winterthur in order to find a suitable museum for the collection of works by German-speaking artists. Due to the Second World War, however, it was not until 1951 that the former boys' school and later grammar school , built in 1842, was inaugurated as a museum. This makes it the oldest collector's museum in Switzerland, based on the models of the Wallace Collection in London, the Hirschsprung Samling in Copenhagen and the Frick Collection in New York. The second collection with works from Gerard David to Pablo Picasso came into the possession of the Swiss Confederation after the collector's death and was opened to the public in 1970 as the Oskar Reinhart Collection "Am Römerholz" in the collector's house. The museum has been sponsored by the Kunstverein Winterthur since 2016 .

building

Museum, old town Winterthur
Art Museum Winterthur - Reinhart am Stadtgarten

The Zurich architect Leonhard Zeugheer originally designed the building at the Stadtgarten as a boys' high school, library and for the municipal collections. The neo-renaissance building , completed in 1842, served these purposes for over 100 years before it was converted into a museum for the collection of works by German-speaking artists of the 19th century from 1948 onwards from the property of Oskar Reinhart. The opening of the new museum took place on January 21, 1951. The building has a portico in the middle with figures by Ulrich Zwingli , Heinrich Pestalozzi , Conrad Gessner and Johann Georg Sulzer enthroned.

collection

The museum houses around 600 works of art from the end of the 18th to the beginning of the 20th century. Both in terms of size and quality, the collection is one of the leading institutions in the field of German, Austrian and Swiss art of the time. Significant groups of works by Jean-Étienne Liotard , Caspar David Friedrich , Arnold Böcklin and Ferdinand Hodler are among the highlights of the collection. Other represented artists are Caspar Wolf , Anton Graff , Wilhelm von Kobell , Jacques-Laurent Agasse , Georg Friedrich Kersting , Johan Christian Clausen Dahl , Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller , Franz Krüger , Carl Rottmann , Carl Blechen , Eduard Gaertner , Moritz von Schwind , Carl Spitzweg , Rudolf von Alt , Adolph von Menzel , Frank Buchser , Anselm Feuerbach , Albert Anker , Hans Thoma , Wilhelm Leibl , Carl Schuch , Max Liebermann , Fritz von Uhde , Wilhelm Trübner , Giovanni Segantini , Giovanni Giacometti and Max Slevogt . Oskar Reinhart acquired a large part of the collection from his trusted friend and dealer Fritz Nathan . In addition to the paintings, the rooms are equipped with contemporary furniture, so that the pictures are shown in a homely environment. The museum also has an extensive collection of graphics.

In June 2015, the Foundation voluntarily returned a pastel by Adolph von Menzel to Rudolf Mosse's heirs based on its own provenance research , because it was of the opinion that it was stolen art.

Since October 2016, the holdings of the Jakob Briner Foundation, which was closed in 2018, have been exhibited in a newly established ground floor wing. These are works from the Golden Age of the Netherlands with paintings by artists such as Pieter Lastman , Adriaen Pietersz. van de Venne , Pieter Claesz , Jan van Goyen , Pieter Codde , Willem Cornelisz. Duyster , Jan Asselijn , Adriaen van Ostade , Hendrik Martensz. Sorgh , Ferdinand Bol , Emanuel de Witte , Abraham van Beijeren , Samuel van Hoogstraten , Pieter de Hooch , Jacob van Ruisdael and Michiel van Musscher , supplemented with loans from a private collection with works by Nicolaes Maes , Jan Steen and works by other artists.

Exhibitions

  • 2010: Albert Anker . Beautiful world. On the 100th anniversary of death
  • 2013: Anton Graff : Faces of an Era. In cooperation with the Nationalgalerie - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin . Exhibition catalog: Hirmer, Munich 2013.
  • 2014: Home Grown - Winterthur painting through the centuries.
  • 2014: July to October: Max Liebermann and Switzerland. Exhibition catalog: Hirmer, Munich 2014.
  • 2014: December to March 2015: Orange!
  • 2015: May to September: Confrontation: Swiss drawings from Liotard to Noureldin .
  • 2015: October to February 2016: Hodler , Anker , Giacometti : Masterpieces from the Christoph Blocher Collection . Exhibition catalog: Hirmer, Munich 2015.
  • 2016: Au sein du Lac Léman. Miniature painting from French-speaking Switzerland.
  • 2018: July to January 2019: Dutch Mountains. From the Dutch lowlands to the Alps. Exhibition catalog: Hirmer, Munich 2018.

Exhibited works (selection)

literature

Web links

Commons : Kunst Museum Winterthur  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Jakob Bächtold: Even if the money is there, question marks remain. Article in the newspaper Der Landbote from November 26, 2016
  2. http://museumoskarreinhart.ch/de/oskar-reinhart/provenienzforschung.html
  3. culture-online.net

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