21 October 2006 – 11 February 2007

Model for a Museum

Works from the collection including the complete donation Minnich, as well as an "Interieur" by Anton Henning and Allan Porters "I Am A Museum"
The biggest presentation of the collection since the opening of the Museum of Art in Lucerne's Culture and Congress Centre (KKL) six years ago is devoted to the museum institution as a place of collecting, remembering and representation. It brings together works taking these functions as their subject-matter in many different ways, either because they themselves are small collections, because they have called for new forms of the institution, or even only because, standing out as remembered objects, they shape the collective memory which the museum serves as a receptacle. The exhibition forms the conclusion of the Collection Project 04-06, which has been intensively pursued over two and a half years.



Apart from the collection, which belongs to the Art Society, and which is developing in accordance with its public task, various models of private collection are being shown, such as the Minnich collection, which was donated to the Museum of Art in 1937, and which is being shown here in its entirety for the first time. The well-known works by Pechstein, Soutine, Dufy and Vlaminck are now amongst the highlights of Museum of Art Lucerne. But previously unknown works, such as Moriz Melzer's Monotypes, may also be discovered in the donation.

Address

Kunstmuseum Luzern
Europaplatz 1
6002 Luzern
phone +41 41 226 78 00
http://www.kunstmuseumluzern.ch

Opening Hours

Tuesday - Sunday 10 a.m.-17 , Wednesday - 8 p.m., closed on Monday.

Description of the Museum

The collection of the Museum of Art Lucerne consists primarily of Swiss art from the Renaissance through to the present day.

New building opened in 2001; architect: Jean Nouvel

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