Museum Franz Gertsch

The art of Franz Gertsch and temporary exhibitions

Opened in 2002 and extended in 2019, the Museum Franz Gertsch, with its very clear rooms entirely given to art, is dedicated to the internationally renowned Swiss artist Franz Gertsch. In addition to the art of Franz Gertsch, the museum, located in Burgdorf near Bern, regularly shows temporary exhibitions presenting a broad spectrum of contemporary art. Companions as well as comparable younger positions from Switzerland and abroad, but also contrasting approaches to reality are the exhibition themes; the interface of painting and photography forms another focus. The core of the museum collection is formed by the large-format woodcuts printed on Japanese paper and the monumental paintings by Franz Gertsch from 1986 onwards. The permanently exhibited cycle of the Four Seasons, created between 2007 and 2011, is unique.

Museum Franz Gertsch
Louisiana Visits Franz Gertsch
Post-War and Contemporary Art in Dialogue
until Su, 02.03.2025

Lichtenstein and Warhol, Rothko and Richter in Burgdorf – the Museum Franz Gertsch is putting on an expansive exhibition with 49 top pieces by 30 artists from the collection of the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, Denmark. The paintings, works on paper, prints, and photographs will be on display in all the museum’s rooms, aside from the Cabinet.

 

This time, we will not be showing Franz Gertsch’s work in separate rooms in a second exhibition. Instead, the Louisiana collection will be interspersed with 24 chosen paintings, woodcuts, and aquarelles by Gertsch, which have either never been presented in Burgdorf, or only rarely or a long time ago, thereby enabling viewers to see our house artist reflected in the art of his time. Movements such as Pop Art, Abstract Expressionism, Hard-Edge Painting, Shaped Canvas and Color Field Painting, as well as figures and landscapes in contemporary painting and photography, but also significant solo positions feature in this presentation.

 

The exhibition was curated by Anna Wesle and will be accompanied by a comprehensive German and English catalogue with art historically informed contributions by several authors. The catalogue will be published by Hatje Cantz in November. Visitors can also look forward to a diverse supporting and educational programme.

 

 

 

The represented artists in alphabetical order:

 

Josef Albers (1888–1976, DE), Mamma Andersson (*1962, SE), Per Bak Jensen (*1949, DK), Ross Bleckner (*1949, USA), Chuck Close (1940–2021, USA), Peter Doig (*1959, GB), Sam Francis (1923–1994, USA), Andreas Gursky (*1955, DE), Auguste Herbin (1882–1960, FR), Shara Hughes (*1981, USA), Asger Jorn (1914–1973, DK), Birgit Jürgenssen (1949–2003, AT), Ellsworth Kelly (1923–2015, USA), Per Kirkeby (1938–2018, DK), Konrad Klapheck (1935–2023, DE), Roy Lichtenstein (1923–1997, USA), Morris Louis (1912–1962, USA), Gerold Miller (*1961, DE), Sigmar Polke (1941–2010, DE), Jackson Pollock (1912–1956, USA), Gerhard Richter (*1932, DE), Mark Rothko (1903–1970, USA), Cindy Sherman (*1954, USA), Qiu Shihua (*1940, CN), Frank Stella (1936–2024, USA), Thomas Struth (*1954, DE), Victor Vasarely (1906–1997, FR), Andy Warhol (1928–1987, USA), Troels Wörsel (1950–2018, DK), and Franz Gertsch (1930–2022, CH).

 

 

 

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