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33 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago -Discover the Masterpieces at Kunst Museum Winterthur: From the Golden Age of Dutch Painting to Contemporary Art.
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Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Relief rectangulaire, cercles découpés, rondelles sur tiges, 1963
February 06, 2023 08:35 - 2 minutes - 135 MB VideoSophie Taeuber-Arp is one of the most important representatives of Classical Modernism and is considered a pioneer of abstraction.
Alberto Giacometti, The Glade, 1950
November 21, 2019 12:44 - 2 minutes - 44.9 MB VideoAlberto Giacometti was in Geneva during the Second World War. In 1945 he returned to Paris. His old studio was still intact and he could have simply continued working.
Giorgio Morandi, Still Lifes and Landscape, 1961
November 21, 2019 12:43 - 2 minutes - 146 MB VideoSecluded, Giorgio Morandi lived and worked in Bologna. He specialized in still lifes on small format canvases.
Hans Arp, Skeleton, 1928
November 21, 2019 12:41 - 2 minutes - 49 MB VideoThe Alsace artist, Hans Arp, had already played a central role as artist and poet in the Dadaist movements in Zürich and Paris. Humour and irony also characterised his later work, especially the reliefs.
Alexander Calder, Untitled, 1934-1939
November 21, 2019 12:40 - 1 minute - 28.4 MB VideoIn 1926 Alexander Calder left America and went to Paris where the most important new artists of the time were working. His encounter with the Dutchman Piet Mondrian was groundbreaking.
Giorgio de Chirico, Self-Portrait, 1924
November 21, 2019 12:37 - 2 minutes - 71.7 MB VideoThe Italian Giorgio de Chirico painted his mysterious pictures in Paris before the First World War. He called his art “Pittura metafisica,” a style that had great influence on European painting.
Juan Gris, Pierrot, 1919
November 21, 2019 12:36 - 2 minutes - 39.7 MB VideoThe presence of Cubist paintings by Picasso and Braque was exceptionally strong even before the First World War. The Spaniard Juan Gris discovered the foundations of his work within them, but nevertheless developed his own, quite individual style, which led him to a strictly classical pictorial design.
Georges Braque, Still Life with Guitar, 1919
November 21, 2019 12:32 - 2 minutes - 121 MB VideoIn the years preceding the First World War Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso developed cubism.This was a new type of portrayal of reality.
Fernand Léger, The Balcony, 1914
November 21, 2019 12:29 - 2 minutes - 82.9 MB VideoFernand Léger was not a painter of finely nuanced colour tones like Robert Delaunay, and he also wasn’t a strict Cubist like Braque and Picasso. Léger was a painter of expressive contrasts: colour, line and form come into direct conflict in his pictures.
Robert Delaunay, The Windows Giving over the Town, 1912
November 21, 2019 12:27 - 2 minutes - 83.6 MB VideoRobert Delaunay painted numerous views of Paris. The view of the city through a window is the subject of a series of pictures that he painted in 1912.
Pierre Bonnard, The Orange Light Shade, 1908
November 21, 2019 12:25 - 2 minutes - 77.9 MB VideoAlongside Edouard Vuillard, Pierre Bonnard became the leading painter of intimate interiors at the beginning of the 20th century. They had a mutual interest in the refined use of colour in the rooms.
Eduard Vuillard, Woman Reading, 1910
November 21, 2019 12:23 - 2 minutes - 144 MB VideoAll his life Edouard Vuillard’s studio was in the apartment that he shared with his mother. Life and painting were closely related and his choice of models was no exception.
Edouard Vuillard, Grandmother and Child, 1899
November 21, 2019 12:21 - 2 minutes - 81.4 MB VideoIn around 1890 some young painters came together under the name of the “Nabis,” among them were, Pierre Bonnard, Maurice Denis, Félix Vallotton and Edouard Vuillard. They sought new ideas for the art of painting.
Odilon Redon, Alsace or Reading Monk, ca. 1914
November 21, 2019 12:18 - 2 minutes - 84.9 MB VideoOdilon Redon was one of the great loners among French painters. His path was set apart from Realism and Impressionism.
Auguste Rodin, Pierre de Wissant (Nude), ca. 1885-1887
November 21, 2019 12:15 - 2 minutes - 35.7 MB VideoIn around 1900 the sculpture underwent profound changes; both material and space were treated in a new way. One of the great innovators in this was Auguste Rodin.
Camille Pissarro, Mardi Gras, Sunset, Boulevard Montmartre, 1897
November 21, 2019 12:13 - 2 minutes - 157 MB VideoCamille Pissarro was one of the pioneering Impressionist painters.
Claude Monet, Low Tide (Varengeville), 1882
May 23, 2013 07:21 - 2 minutes - 46.8 MB VideoDuring his search for appropriate motifs Claude Monet moved to Normandy in the winter of 1882.
Fernand Léger, Still Life, 1927
May 02, 2013 07:47 - 2 minutes - 25.7 MB VideoAfter the First World War Fernand Léger's work changed; the animated, fragmented compositions made way for a new form. A cool order determined his works.
Pierre Bonnard, Southern Landscape or Le Cannet Landscape, 1926
March 20, 2013 12:19 - 2 minutes - 43.5 MB VideoIn 1926, at the age of 60, Pierre Bonnard moved into a villa in the Côte d’Azur, above Cannes.
Pablo Picasso, Two Women, 1934
January 16, 2013 11:03 - 2 minutes - 43 MB VideoPablo Picasso was fond of painting the motifs he was working with in a series. Every day he would take the subject in hand and paint a new version of it.
Félix Vallotton, View of Honfleur, 1910
September 20, 2012 12:55 - 2 minutes - 39.5 MB VideoIn 1909 Vallotton rented a villa in Honfleur on the coast of Normandy as a summer residence. This marked the beginning of a new chapter in his painting; in the years that followed he turned his attention to landscape painting.
Félix Vallotton, The Models at Rest, 1905
September 20, 2012 12:45 - 2 minutes - 54 MB VideoBonnard, Vuillard and Félix Vallotton belonged to the circle of Nabis painters. Among them Vallotton was “le nabi étranger”, the stranger from the Canton of Vaud, and also the outsider.
Henri Rousseau, To Celebrate the Baby!, 1903
August 30, 2012 14:45 - 2 minutes - 40.4 MB VideoThis portrait of a child by Henri Rousseau is supposed to have been a contracted picture. From early on, both the picture and its artist were surrounded by myths.
Alfred Sisley, Under Hampton Court Bridge, 1874
August 09, 2012 07:17 - 2 minutes - 58.3 MB VideoImpressionism was born in 1874. An exhibition was organised in Paris under the title of “première exposition impressionniste,” which launched a new style of painting and caused a sensation.
Vincent van Gogh, Summer Evening, 1888
July 19, 2012 07:48 - 2 minutes - 57 MB VideoVincent van Gogh became familiar with Impressionism in Paris. When he arrived in Arles in 1888 this encounter lay in the past and he was looking for new mediums of expression.
René Magritte, The Lost World, 1928
June 28, 2012 07:06 - 2 minutes - 46.7 MB VideoDuring the 1920s Brussels and Antwerp were two important centres of Avant-garde. A circle of literati gathered around the painter René Magritte in Brussels.
Oskar Schlemmer, Interior with Five Figures, 1928
June 07, 2012 07:39 - 2 minutes - 58.1 MB VideoThe Bauhaus was an innovative school. Renowned artists taught there– Klee, Kandinsky, Albers, and Oskar Schlemmer as well.
Constantin Brancusi, Danaïde, ca. 1913
May 16, 2012 07:20 - 2 minutes - 34.2 MB VideoIn 1904 Constantin Brancusi walked all the way from Romania to Paris, where he first worked for Auguste Rodin for a time, but he didn’t endure the overpowering master for long.
Welcome: Ker-Xavier Roussel and Aristide Maillol
January 12, 2012 14:32 - 4 minutes - 99.1 MB VideoWelcome to the Kunst Museum Winterthur, and welcome to our tour that begins here in the stairwell of the museum.
Paul Klee, Flowering, 1934
January 12, 2012 14:30 - 2 minutes - 32.5 MB VideoRobert Delauney’s window pictures impressed Paul Klee, but it took a long time for Klee to find his own way to incorporate this enthusiasm in his own works.
Piet Mondrian, Composition I, 1930, and Composition A, 1932
January 12, 2012 14:29 - 3 minutes - 20.8 MB VideoPiet Mondrian is the epitome of the abstract painter. He cherished the term,“ abstract,“ which to him was the fundamental and the universal quality of art untrammelled by detail that could give expression to the deepest, underlying structures.
Claude Monet, White and Yellow Nympheas, ca. 1915–1917
January 12, 2012 14:27 - 2 minutes - 49.7 MB VideoIn the 1920s Impressionism had already become a thing of the past. It was only the old man Claude Monet who still worked in this style.
Vincent van Gogh, Joseph Roulin, 1888
January 12, 2012 14:26 - 2 minutes - 46.5 MB VideoVan Gogh lived in Arles in Café de la Gare. It was here that he got to know the postmaster Joseph Roulin, who was a regular customer.