Villa Flora (Winterthur)

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Villa Flora in Winterthur
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The Villa Flora was a private art museum in Winterthur . From 1995 to 2014 it housed more than 100 paintings of French and Swiss painting from the late 19th and early 20th centuries from the holdings of the former collection of Hedy Hahnloser-Bühler and Arthur Hahnloser . Villa Flora has belonged to the Kunst Museum Winterthur since 2018 and is known as the Kunst Museum Winterthur | Villa Flora managed. The building is currently under renovation for the reopening planned for 2022.

history

In 1898, Hedy Hahnloser-Bühler (1873–1952), daughter of the textile manufacturer Karl Bühler-Blumer, married the ophthalmologist Arthur Hahnloser (1870–1936). The couple's collecting activities were primarily based on their wife, who received significant support from her husband in building up the collection that was created between 1905 and 1936. Today you sponsored well-known post-impressionist painters .

After the renovation in 1995, the Hahnloser Collection was presented to the public in the form of changing exhibitions. The works come from the Hahnloser / Jaeggli Foundation and from the descendants of the collector couple Hedy and Arthur Hahnloser-Bühler.

The museum was closed in May 2014. In February 2015, an exhibition of the collection started in the Hamburger Kunsthalle , which was continued on a smaller scale in the Musée Marmottan in Paris , in the Moritzburg Art Museum , Halle (Saale) and in the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart until 2017. From August 2017, the works of the Hahnloser / Jaeggli Foundation can be seen in a separate area of ​​the Bern Art Museum.

building

The villa was built in 1846 and has been owned by the Bühlers since 1856. The couple moved early into the house from which Arthur Hahnloser ran his medical practice. The building was expanded several times from 1862 to 1927. One of these extensions is the art nouveau salon designed by architects Rittmeyer / Furrer in 1908, along with furniture and lamps, which was shown in the first Zurich spatial art exhibition and is still completely original. The villa was recently renovated to include an entrance hall before it opened as a museum. There are two life-size bronze figures by Aristide Maillol in the garden of the villa .

Hahnloser collection

The collection includes important works by the following artists: Pierre Bonnard , Paul Cézanne , Giovanni Giacometti , Vincent van Gogh , Ferdinand Hodler , Aristide Maillol , Henri Manguin , Albert Marquet , Henri Matisse , Odilon Redon , Pierre-Auguste Renoir , Auguste Rodin , Georges Rouault , Ker-Xavier Roussel , Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec , Félix Vallotton , Edouard Vuillard and Friedrich Wield . The collection is listed in Switzerland as a cultural asset of national importance .

  • Pierre-Auguste Renoir: On the Beach at Guernsey (1883)

  • Vincent van Gogh: The Sower (1888)

  • Ferdinand Hodler: Virgin Massif and Black Monk (1911)

  • Felix Vallotton: La Blanche et la Noire (1913)

literature

  • Margrit Hahnloser-Ingold (Ed.): The Arthur and Hedy Hahnloser Collection. With the eyes of the artist. La Bibliothèque des Arts, Lausanne, Benteli Verlag, Bern 2011, ISBN 978-3-7165-1681-2

Web links

Commons : Villa Flora  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hamburger Kunsthalle: Enchanted Time.
  2. ↑ Villa Flora closes the museum. In: Tages-Anzeiger , November 26, 2013.
  3. ↑ Media area , villaflora.ch, accessed on December 27, 2016.
  4. ↑ Simon Baur: Villa Flora - successful coup. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , October 20, 2016.

Coordinates: 47 ° 29 '47.1 "  N , 8 ° 44' 7.2"  E ; CH1903:  697,706  /  261,436