The latest podcasts
The Kunstmuseum Winterthur offers a range of video downloads (podcasts) of the highlights of the collection in English and German. You may download the podcasts to your computer from this site, via iTunes or YouTube and transfer them to your iPhone free of charge. Subscribe and you will receive our latest podcast every three weeks.
Welcome: Ker-Xavier Roussel and Aristide Maillol
06.02.2012 - Welcome to the Kunstmuseum Winterthur, and welcome to our tour that begins here in the stairwell of the museum.
Paul Klee, Flowering, 1934
20.01.2012 - Robert 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
20.01.2012 - Piet 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
20.01.2012 - In 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
20.01.2012 - Van 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.