Oskar Reinhart

Oskar Reinhart (born June 11, 1885 in Winterthur ; † September 16, 1965 in Winterthur) was a Swiss art collector and patron .

biography

His father Theodor Reinhart , head of the Volkart brothers trading company , supported numerous artists, including Ferdinand Hodler , Karl Hofer and Hermann Haller . The love for art carried over to his son, who made the art collection and art promotion his life.

In 1919 he bought the House for Patience in Winterthur , which he had converted into a club house based on the English model for the Club for Patience he founded. He resigned from the family business in 1924 and built a gallery building for his art collection next to his residence "Am Römerholz" in Winterthur. During his lifetime, he gave the city of Winterthur the works of German , Swiss and Austrian artists from the 18th to the early 20th centuries, who have been at home in the Oskar Reinhart Museum since 1951 . This collection alone now houses around 600 works of art.

After his death, the other part of the collection, including the “Am Römerholz” house, became the property of the Swiss Confederation as his legacy. As one of the most important private collections, it houses around 200 major works by the old masters in Reinhart's former home, including Lucas Cranach the Elder , and 19th-century French painting, particularly Impressionism ( Honoré Daumier , Pierre-Auguste Renoir , Paul Cézanne , Vincent van Gogh and others).

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  Self-portrait of Anton Graff with his family, 1785

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  The playground , Jacques-Laurent Agasse , 1830

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  The painter in the Carl Spitzweg garden , circa 1870

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  The little knitters , Albert Anker , 1850–1900

literature

• Peter Wegmann (Ed.): Oskar Reinhart - Human - Collector - Founder. Rüegger Verlag, Glarus / Chur 2012, ISBN 978-3-7253-0984-9 .
• Peter Wegmann: From Caspar David Friedrich to Ferdinand Hodler, exhibition catalog Berlin Alte Nationalgalerie, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, New York The Metropolitan Museum of Art, London The National Gallery, Geneva Musée d'art et d'histoire 1993-1995. Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 978-0-810-96432-7
• Mariantonia Reinhard-Felice:  Reinhart, Oskar. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 365 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

• Museum Oskar Reinhart, Winterthur
• Oskar Reinhart Collection 'Am Römerholz', Winterthur
• Harry Joelson-Strohbach: Reinhart, Oskar. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .