Low Land, New Heights
Dutch Landscape Paintings from the Collection
22 June – 22 September 2024 | Beim Stadthaus
Pieter de Molijn
Waldlandschaft mit einem Überfall, um 1630
In 2024 the Museum Reinhart am Stadtgarten will close for several months due to renovation work. All paintings will be taken down during this period. While part of the collection will be stored, the Kunst Museum Winterthur is taking advantage of this opportunity to send some of the masterpieces of the Stiftung Oskar Reinhart on tour in order to bring visibility to the museum and ultimately also to Swiss art on the international stage.
Low Land, New Heights, a presentation of the important collection of Dutch Baroque landscape paintings, will remain on view in the Kunst Museum Winterthur | Beim Stadthaus during this period. Holland was the stronghold of landscape painting in the seventeenth century. Artists created a veritable topography of their country that reflected the seasons and the elements, propagating their new awareness of their country and national identity. Jan van Goyen’s views of rivers and villages are just as representative as the picturesque dunes and forest landscapes by his contemporary Pieter de Molijn. The Dutch were also proud of their cosmopolitanism, which found its culmination in the seascapes by marine painter Willem van de Velde. The longing for faraway places was embodied by the southern ideal landscapes of the Dutch Italianates. Jacob van Ruisdael ultimately gave a spiritual dimension to landscape painting. His tree scenes and spectacular waterfalls, which the artist conceived as a mirror of human emotions, conclude the selection, which makes this important ensemble of Netherlandish art accessible in a new context.
Curator: Andrea Lutz
21.09.2024
18:00 - 19:00Talk with the Artist / Beim Stadthaus
Where is Duchamp? – Talk with Bethan Huws
Over the last two decades, Bethan Huws has become one of the leading experts on the work of Marcel Duchamp. She will talk about her research into the readymade, the end of painting and the birth of conceptual art, and how her engagement with the French artist’s thought processes and work has influenced and shaped her own work.
The written conversation with the artist will be conducted in English.
17.11.2024
13:00 - 14:00Special / Beim Stadthaus
Just What Was it That Made Yesterday’s Homes So Different, So Appealing? – Gespräch mit Etienne Lullin
Together with Etienne Lullin, Lynn Kost will give a guided tour of the exhibition at the finissage. The tour will focus on the work of Richard Hamilton. As a co-founder of Pop Art, the British artist is an important figure in the exhibition and has helped to shape appropriation art and the perception of the readymade. Lullin is an expert on Hamilton and author of the catalogue raisonné of his prints and multiples, the entire holdings of which are in the collection of the Kunst Museum Winterthur.
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