Rosengart collection lucerne switzerland
Rosengart collection lucerne switzerland
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Rosengart Collection Museum
Art museum in Lucerne, Switzerland
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Location | Lucerne, Switzerland |
Type | Modern art |
The Rosengart Collection Museum (Museum Sammlung Rosengart) is an art museum located in Lucerne, Switzerland.
It houses a collection of modern art based on two main artists: Paul Klee and Pablo Picasso.[1][2]
Collection
The art dealer Siegfried Rosengart[3] (), who worked in Munich with his uncle Heinrich Thannhauser before moving to Lucerne, had contacts with Picasso[4] and Marc Chagall.[5] With his daughter, Angela, he built a modern art collection containing works by Vassily Kandinsky,[6]Georges Braque, Chaïm Soutine, Amedeo Modigliani, Fernand Léger, Georges Seurat, Pierre Bonnard, Édouard Vuillard, Paul Cézanne ou Claude Monet,[7] as well as Camille Pissarro, Auguste Renoir, Maurice Utrillo, Georges Rouault, Henri Matisse ou enc