Hannes Schmid – Real Stories
The Swiss photographer, filmmaker, and painter Hannes Schmid was born in 1946 in Zurich. He is one of the great visual narrators of our time. Hannes Schmid is famous since the early 1990s for his iconic staging of the Marlboro cowboys and innovative fashion shots.
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Myths and Mysteries. Symbolism and Swiss Artists
When the first symbolist works were produced in 1890, Swiss artists such as Ferdinand Hodler, or Carlos Schwabe played a pivotal role. The show Myths and Mysteries is presenting masterpieces of the symbolist epoch over a space of 1000 square meters, with artworks from Switzerland as well as from neighboring European countries.
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Kunstmuseum Bern @ PROGR Uriel Orlow
Werke aus der Sammlung
Uriel Orlow ist bekannt für Installationen, welche auf ausgiebigen Recherchen zu spezifischen Orten und Ereignissen basieren. Seine Werke erkunden unterdrückte Erinnerungen und Traumas. So auch das Einkanalvideo «1942 (Poznan)».
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Opening The Butterflies' Ball and the Dogs' Party. Ernst Kreidolf and the Animals
Besides flora and foliage, animals with anthropomorphic traits inhabit Ernst Kreidolf’s illustrations. The Kunstmuseum Bern has a rich collection of his drawings of grasshoppers, butterflies, cats, or dogs in its storerooms, and many of them will be shown to the public for the first time in the exhibition Butterflies’ Ball and Dogs’ Party.
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Of Dogs, Butterflies and Other Creatures
The Butterflies' Ball and the Dogs' Party. Ernst Kreidolf and the Animals, 21.06. - 29.09.2013
The Kunstmuseum Bern is mounting an exhibition of around 150 works by Ernst Kreidolf (Bern 1863–1956 Bern) to commemorate his 150th birthday. The show gives our visitors again the opportunity of admiring the fascinating oeuvre of this famous and popular illustrated-book artist. Original studies for the illustrated books Sommervögel, Lenzgesind, and Hundefest are among the exhibits that can be viewed at the Kunstmuseum Bern. Additionally the exhibition is presenting drawings and sketches from his early work that have never been shown to the general public before. The Kunstmuseum Bern organized the exhibition jointly with the Städtische Wessenberg Galerie in Constance and the Ernst Kreidolf Foundation and Association.
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