The famous Bern artist Albrecht Kauw presents in his still life a rich selection of fish as we might have found served in a patrician household during his lifetime. Kauw follows Netherlandish painting in his art while depicting the lifestyle and situation of the proud Bernese landowners. From the podcast series featuring highlights of the Kunstmuseum Bern’s collection.

The human face is a key motif in Alexej von Jawlensky’s oeuvre. This is also true for Sinnende Frau: her gaze seems lost in the distance and to nevertheless focus on the beholder. Learn more about Alexej Jawlensky and the style of art he worked in. From the podcast series featuring highlights of the Kunstmuseum Bern’s collection.

Allowing us a view of her private sphere, a young woman sits in a sparsely furnished room of a middle-class household while reading intently. The Swiss artist Felix Vallotton explored the subject of a reading woman in a variety of ways with diverse models sitting for him. From the podcast series featuring highlights of the Kunstmuseum Bern’s collection.

Already early in his artistic career, Franz Marc was intensely fascinated by the world of animals—and felt a strong bond to them. We can palpably perceive this in Blaues Pferd II, where viewers have the impression that they experience the world from the perspective of a horse. Learn more about Franz Marc’s development as an artist and the different stages of his artistic career. From the podcast series featuring highlights of the Kunstmuseum Bern’s collection.

Elongated forms are an unmistakeable characteristic of Amadeo Modigliani’s work—and are obvious in this portrait of Elvira too. During the artist’s lifetime this female nude created quite a scandal. What is your reaction to it? From the podcast series featuring highlights of the Kunstmuseum Bern’s collection.

The sunflower is a recurrent motif in Vincent van Gogh’s artworks, and is also depicted in this oil painting. Are you curious about what symbolic meaning the sunflower had for this artist? From the podcast series featuring highlights of the Kunstmuseum Bern’s collection.

Female couples play a significant part in the realist artist Gustave Courbet’s works. Learn more about this very sensual painting that so palpably illustrates the physical intimacy of the two young women. From the podcast series featuring highlights of the Kunstmuseum Bern’s collection.

Learn more about the oil painting depicting the Grindelwald Glacier, which was executed around 1777 by the famous Swiss landscape painter Caspar Wolf. The painting served as a model for a copperplate engraving that was, during the artist's lifetime, sold to tourists as a souvenir in folders containing various Alpine scenes. From the podcast series featuring highlights of the Kunstmuseum Bern’s collection.

Juan Gris reduced figures and objects to their basic forms and shapes in his paintings. He also combined motifs such as guitars, drinking glasses, and pieces of fruit in ever new compositions. Juan Gris belongs to the leading representatives of cubism together with Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. From the podcast series featuring highlights of the Kunstmuseum Bern’s collection.

Do you know who the patron saint of painters is since early medieval times? Learn more about the artist Niklaus Manuel Deutsch and his work. From the podcast series featuring highlights of the Kunstmuseum Bern’s collection.

What is depicted in this work: a pyramid, the mountain of the Muses, or Niesen of the Swiss Alps? Learn more about the painting and its artist Paul Klee, who decisively influenced 20th-century art with his highly diverse work. From the podcast series featuring highlights of the Kunstmuseum Bern’s collection.

How did the artist Paul Cézanne see and portray himself? Learn more about the French artist and his self-portrait. From the podcast series featuring highlights of the Kunstmuseum Bern’s collection.

The Staubbach waterfall in Lauterbrunnen Valley situated in the Bernese Oberland is still an attraction for tourists today. Learn more about the Swiss painter König and his sources of inspiration, e.g. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's famous poem »Song of the Spirits over the Waters«. From the podcast series on the highlights of the Kunstmuseum Bern Collection.

Learn more about Albert Anker's painting depicting the children of a day nursery walking over the Bernese Kirchenfeld bridge. The work is one of this famous artist's last large-format oil paintings. From the podcast series on the highlights of the Kunstmuseum Bern Collection.

Learn more about these two lovers who meet on a spring day in the garden of an Italian country house. The renowned Swiss painter Arnold Böcklin was a prominent symbolist artist. From the podcast series on the highlights of the Kunstmuseum Bern Collection.

Georges Braque's painting shows the houses of a French fishing village not far from Marseille. Learn more about this famous cubist landscape painting. From the podcast series on the Highlights of the Kunstmuseum Bern Collection.

Duccio di Buoninsegna's painting of the Virgin as the Mother of God with the child Jesus still fascinates us today. Learn more about this richly decorated devotional image that the Sienese painter executed while also working on the famous Madonna Rucellai. From the podcast series on the highlights of the Kunstmuseum Bern Collection.

The symbolist oil painting "Night" depicts seven sleeping figures. The famous Swiss painter portrayed himself between his wife Bertha Stucki and his mistress Augustine Dupin. The painting is one of Hodler's most famous paintings besides "Day". From the podcast series on the Highlights of the Kunstmuseum Bern Collection.

Learn more about this expressionist painting of a group of country people on alpine meadows close to Davos. This is one of Ludwig Kirchner's largest paintings. He was one of the most famous of the Brücke artists. From the podcast series on the highlights of the Kunstmuseum Bern Collection.

The famous impressionist painter Edouard Manet lived in the country house portrayed in the oil painting. The approach is a tree-lined path into a bright and sunny garden. From the podcast series on the highlights of the Kunstmuseum Bern Collection.

The Irish artist Sean Scully paints one color field next to the other. Learn more about how this artist's energy and emotions are expressed in the medium of paint. From the podcast series on the highlights of the Kunstmuseum Bern Collection.

During his Blue Period Picasso executed this painting of a young female drinker who has fallen asleep. Learn more about the story behind the woman in the painting as well as about the painting itself. From the podcast series on the Highlights of the Kunstmuseum Bern Collection.

The collage by the dada artist Kurt Schwitters was painted shortly after the First World War. Learn more about this Merz picture that was assembled and glued together out of all kinds of everyday objects. From the podcast series on the highlights of the Kunstmuseum Bern Collection.

The Irish artist Sean Scully paints one color field next to the other. Learn more about how this artist's energy and emotions are expressed in the medium of paint. From the podcast series on the highlights of the Kunstmuseum Bern Collection.