Life in Full. Old Masters from Duccio to Liotard

One of the treasures of the Kunstmuseum Bern’s collection is the significant holding of works of earlier art. The presentation Life in Full. Old Masters from Duccio to Liotard places a particular focus on the Bernese renaissance and early Florentine and Sienese painting from the 14th and 15th centuries. A fascinating exhibition that reflects life in all its diversity: martyrdom meets grandstanding, asceticism meets opulence, virtue meets lust.

It includes artistically rich altar panels made by the Bernese Carnation Masters between 1480 and 1520, and the exceptional holdings of works by Niklaus Manuel, who was not only a painter, poet and graphic artist, but also a reformer, mercenary soldier and alderman of the city of Bern. Opulent still lifes and majestic portraits made by artists such as Joseph Heintz, Albrecht Kauw and Johannes Dünz, reflect the economic affluence of Bern in the age of the baroque.

Altarpieces and fragments from the Italian Trecento and Quattrocento, unparalleled in Switzerland, are also on display in a cabinet. These include a devotional panel, renown and highly valuable, by Duccio di Buoninsegna, as well as works by Bernardo and Taddeo Daddi, Fra Angelico, Filippo Lippi and the workshop of Sandro Botticelli.

We cordially invite you and your friends to the vernissage!
The exhibition is open from 18:00. The speeches will begin at 19:30.

The following persons will speak:

Nina Zimmer
Director Kunstmuseum Bern – Zentrum Paul Klee

Marieke Kruit
Mayor of Berne

Anne-Christine Strobel
Curator of the exhibition

Limited number of participants, no guarantee of a seat

We look forward to seeing you! We will take photos at the vernissage. Please let us know if you do not wish to appear in published pictures.