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13 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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Joseph Anton Koch, The Wetterhorn, 1824
February 01, 2023 12:44 - 2 minutes - 188 MB VideoJoseph Anton Koch was known for his landscapes, for he did not show nature as a lovely idyll as usual, but as eerily beautiful.
Carl Blechen, The ruins of the Septizonium on the Palatine in Rome, The Capuchin monastery near Amalfi, Sea study, 1829
February 01, 2023 12:41 - 2 minutes - 217 MB VideoWith his landscapes depicting the fleeting and atmospheric, Carl Blechen was a pioneer of plein-air painting in German art.
Anton Graff, The artist's family in front of the portrait of Johann Georg Sulzer, 1785
February 01, 2023 12:38 - 2 minutes - 86.2 MB VideoAnton Graff was the most important portraitist of the German Enlightenment and stood out with his individual portrayal of each person.
Jean-Etienne Liotard, Portraits of the couple Isaac-Louis and Julie de Thellusson, 1760
October 18, 2019 07:26 - 2 minutes - 127 MB VideoPastel painter Jean-Étienne Liotard was one of the most sought-after portraitists in Europe in the 18th century.
Ferdinand Hodler, The Grand Muveran, 1912
October 18, 2019 07:24 - 1 minute - 87.9 MB VideoAt the beginning of the 20th century Hodler developed into one of the few great independent landscape artists in Europe. For more than a decade he occupied himself with motifs from the mountain and lake landscape of Switzerland.
Ferdinand Hodler, View into Infinity, 1913/1914–1916
October 18, 2019 07:24 - 2 minutes - 137 MB VideoView into Infinity resulted from a comissioned work for the stairwell of the Kunsthaus Zürich, which took years to complete.
Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Ascending Youth, 1913, and Woman in Deep Meditation, 1913–1914
October 18, 2019 07:23 - 2 minutes - 36.3 MB VideoAt the beginning of the 20th-century Paris wasn’t only the city of leading painters but also the city of great sculptors. Rodin, Maillol, Medardo Rosso.
Max Beckmann, Woman Dressed in White Slip (Reading), 1947
October 18, 2019 07:23 - 2 minutes - 91 MB VideoThe German painter Max Beckmann spent the Second World War in exile in Amsterdam. When the first ship set sail again he emigrated to the USA.
Caspar Wolf, The Lower Grindelwald Glacier with Lütschine and the Mettenberg, 1774
October 18, 2019 07:12 - 2 minutes - 111 MB VideoShaped by new knowledge of the mountains, which now were being explored and researched, with his unique view of the powerful natural setting, Caspar Wolf set a landmark in European landscape painting.
Adolph von Menzel, The Anhalter Railway Station by Moonlight, around 1846
October 18, 2019 07:11 - 2 minutes - 30 MB VideoWith his Biedermeier view through the window upon the industrial motif, Menzel characterises the industrial era as a revolution and a threat.
Caspar David Friedrich, Chalk Cliffs on Rügen, 1818
October 18, 2019 07:10 - 2 minutes - 75.7 MB VideoWith its almost completely abandoned spatial depth and its flat strictness, chalk cliffs on Rügen is one of Friedrich’s most radical compositions. At the same time, it belongs to the most colourful and most festive paintings of this deeply melancholic painter.
Jacob van Ruisdael, Landscape with waterfall, 1670 / 1675
October 17, 2019 12:42 - 2 minutes - 111 MB VideoJacob van Ruisdael was one of the most innovative European landscape painters. He belonged to the first painters who regarded the landscape as a mirror of life and transience.
Pieter Claesz, Still Life with Roemer, 1637
October 17, 2019 12:41 - 2 minutes - 165 MB VideoStill Life with Roemer, painted by Pieter Claesz. in 1637, is one of the highlights of our remarkable collection of Dutch Golden Age paintings.