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Museum of Fine Arts Bern

The Kunstmuseum Bern is Switzerland's oldest fine art museum with a permanent collection ranging from Gothic times to the present. With currently over 3000 paintings and sculptures as well as around 48,000 drawings, prints, photographs, videos and films, it boasts not only one of Switzerland's leading collections but also international renown. The great diversity of its collection, including works by Ferdinand Hodler, Paul Klee, Albert Anker, Pablo Picasso, Franz Gertsch, Vincent van Gogh, Meret Oppenheim and many more, has secured the Kunstmuseum Bern an outstanding reputation worldwide. Large groups of works by Bernhard Luginbühl, Markus Raetz, Urs Lüthi, Dieter Roth and Sigmar Polke represent contemporary approaches.

  • 3 minutes 56 seconds
    Salvador Dalí (1904 – 1989), Atavisms of Twilight (Compulisive Idea) 1933
    Dali’s cryptic painting is based on a picture executed by Millet. The famous surrealist transformed the idyllic landscape into a scene of horror, filling it with macabre eroticism.
    4 October 2015, 8:00 am
  • 3 minutes 22 seconds
    Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864 – 1901), Mrs. Misia Natanson at the Piano, 1897
    Misia Natanson was Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s friend and muse. He painted her portrait nine times in all. Find out more about this artist, who descended from an old aristocratic family, and the pianist from Saint Petersburg, who was the patroness of numerous other artists such as Renoir, Vallotton and Bonnard.
    7 September 2015, 8:00 am
  • 3 minutes 58 seconds
    Alexandre Calame (1810 – 1864), The Grand Eiger, 1844
    Alexandre Calame’s painting is firmly rooted in the romantic tradition. Find out more about his painting of the Eiger and why this artist from western Switzerland traveled to the Bernese Oberland.
    2 August 2015, 7:00 am
  • 3 minutes 29 seconds
    Louis Moilliet (1880 – 1962), At the Music-Hall, 1913
    The composition of Louis Moilliet’s richly colored painting is highly sophisticated. Find out more about this artist, who was born in Bern, and very unjustly destined to be overshadowed by his friends Paul Klee and August Macke. He accompanied them on a trip to Tunisia in 1914.
    5 July 2015, 7:00 am
  • 3 minutes 55 seconds
    Chaim Soutine (1893 – 1943), Flayed Beef, 1926
    Find out more about Chaim Soutine’s expressive painted masterpiece depicting a slaughtered ox. And about the painter too, who was friends with both Modigliani and Chagall. He lived and worked in the La Ruche studio collective in Paris.
    7 June 2015, 6:00 am
  • 4 minutes 32 seconds
    Johannes Itten (1888 – 1967), Composition in Blue, 1918
    Find out more about Johannes Itten, who was born in Emmental and was a Bauhaus teacher and “master.” This abstract painting demonstrates Itten’s theory of color and design in practice, which proved groundbreaking for developments in modern art.
    3 May 2015, 8:00 am
  • 3 minutes 40 seconds
    Piet Mondrian (1872 – 1944), Painting No. II with Grey and Black, 1925
    Despite its asymmetry, Piet Mondrian's painting emanates harmony and serenity. Find out more about why the Dutch artist decided to compose only with rectangles and black lines in his paintings. From the podcast series featuring highlights of the Kunstmuseum Bern Collection.
    5 April 2015, 7:39 am
  • 3 minutes 32 seconds
    Max Ernst (1891 – 1976), Forest and Sun (Nocturnal Landscape), 1928
    Max Ernst has the sun set in a mysterious, nocturnal forest landscape. Find out in what way this artwork is relevant to the artist's childhood. From the podcast series featuring highlights of the Kunstmuseum Bern Collection.
    9 March 2015, 9:00 am
  • 3 minutes 23 seconds
    Hans Arp (1886 – 1966), Duo Painting based on a collaborative drawing with Sophie Taeuber
    Hans Arp and his wife Sophie Taeuber-Arp produced a number of artworks together. Find out in the video how the richly contrasting pictures mirror the relationship between the two artists. From the podcast series featuring highlights of the Kunstmuseum Bern Collection.
    1 February 2015, 9:04 am
  • 3 minutes 45 seconds
    Adolf Wölfli (1864 – 1930), General=View of the Island Neveranger, 1911
    Adolf Wölfli, who spent many years of his life in the Waldau psychiatric clinic near Bern, created a universe of his own in drawings and writings. The wealth of lines, patterns, musical notation and script is literally mesmerizing to look at. From the podcast series featuring highlights of the Kunstmuseum Bern Collection.
    4 January 2015, 8:00 am
  • 3 minutes 30 seconds
    Bernese Carnation Master (unknown), John the Baptist’s Sermon before Herod, around 1490
    Find out more about why John the Baptist rebuked Herod, king of Judaea, and why the unknown painter who executed the Bernese John the Baptist Altar is called the "Carnation Master." From the podcast series featuring highlights of the Kunstmuseum Bern Collection.
    7 December 2014, 9:43 am
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