Enlightenment, Romanticism and Realism
Jacques-Laurent Agasse, Gray Horse on the Meadow, ca 1806/1807
Oil on canvas, 85 x 112.5 cm
Kunst Museum Winterthur, Oskar Reinhart Foundation
Jean-Etienne Liotard, Self-Portrait in a Turkish Costume
Pastel on parchment, 79 x 62.5 cm
Kunst Museum Winterthur, Oskar Reinhart Foundation
Anselm Feuerbach, Iphigenia, 1870
Oil on canvas, 62,5 x 49,5 cm
Kunst Museum Winterthur, Oskar Reinhart Foundation
Caspar David Friedrich, Chalk Cliffs on Rügen, 1818
Oil on canvas, 90 x 70 cm
Kunst Museum Winterthur, Oskar Reinhart Foundation
Caspar Wolf, The Lower Grindelwald Glacier with the Lütschine River and the Mettenberg, 1774
Oil on canvas, 53.5 x 81 cm
Kunst Museum Winterthur, Oskar Reinhart Foundation
Arnold Böcklin, Villa by the Sea, 1878
Oil on canvas, 110 x 160 cm
Kunst Museum Winterthur, Gift of the Estate of Olga Reinhart–Schwarzenbach 1970
Alexandre Calame, The Lutschen Valley with the Wetterhorn, ca 1850/1855
Oil on canvas on board, 31.2 x 26.1 cm
Kunst Museum Winterthur, Oskar Reinhart Foundation
Wilhelm Leibl, The Village Politicians, 1877
Oil on wood, 76 x 97 cm
Kunst Museum Winterthur, Oskar Reinhart Foundation
Albert Anker, Schoolboy, 1881
Oil on canvas, 56 x 42.5 cm
Kunst Museum Winterthur, Oskar Reinhart Foundation
Adolph von Menzel, Head of a Dead Gray Horse, 1848
Oil on paper on board, 37.5 x 52.5 cm
Kunst Museum Winterthur, Oskar Reinhart Foundation
Carl Spitzweg, The Painter in the Garden, um 1860
Oil on canvas, 21.5 x 34 cm
Kunst Museum Winterthur, Oskar Reinhart Foundation
Robert Zünd, Chestnut Trees near Horw, 1857
Oil on canvas, 76 x 93 cm
Kunst Museum Winterthur, Oskar Reinhart Foundation
The Age of Enlightenment is represented by the celebrated portraitists Jean-Étienne Liotard and Anton Graff along with major works by Johann Heinrich Füssli. The development of landscape painting can be traced from Felix Meyer over Caspar Wolf, the Geneva School around Wolfgang-Adam Töpffer to 19th century painters such as Alexandre Calame, Camille Corot and Barthélemy Menn. Nowhere else outside of the French-speaking part of Switzerland can Western Swiss painting be experienced as thoroughly.
19th century painting, marked by its multifarious characteristics, stands at the collection’s centre: A group of works by Caspar David Friedrich typify early Romanticism; Biedermeier and Realism are represented through works by Carl Spitzweg and Ferdinand Kobell, Adolph Menzel and Wilhelm Leibl. Extensive ensembles by Austrian and Swiss colleagues, including Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Rudolf Koller, Robert Zünd, Frank Buchser and Albert Anker can also be seen alongside the German Romans («Deutsch-Römer») Arnold Böcklin, Hans von Marées and Anselm Feuerbach.