3 November 2006 – 21 January 2007

Albrecht Dürer’s master engravings

The Kunsthaus Zürich will host its first showing since 1946 of master engravings by the Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), including ‘The Knight’, ‘Melencolia I’ and ‘Saint Jerome in His Study’. Kunsthaus Zürich acquired the 55 perfectly preserved prints in 2000 when it received the collection of Landammann Dietrich Schindler (1795-1882). Zurich thus joins Vienna and Nuremberg as a site for the study of Dürer’s art in the original. In addition to providing detailed notes on the master engravings, the exhibition also pays special attention to Dürer’s modern way with nudes.

Address

Kunsthaus Zürich
Heimplatz 1
8001 Zürich
phone +41 44 253 84 84
http://www.kunsthaus.ch

Opening Hours

Tuesday-Thursday 10 a.m. - 9 p.m., Friday-Sunday 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., closed on Monday.

Description of the Museum

The Kunsthaus houses one of Switzerland’s most important collections. The most important collection of works by Alberto Giacometti has been on display in bright new rooms since June 2002. In other rooms there are exquisite Medieval sculptures and altar panels, exceptional Flemish and Italian Baroque painting, and the zenith of Swiss 19th and 20th century art represented by the best known works of artists such as Johann Heinrich Fuseli and Ferdinand Hodler.

The collection includes also the largest collection of works by Edvard Munch outside Norway, important paintings by Picasso and the Expressionists Kokoschka, Beckmann and Corinth. There is also a significant group of works by Claude Monet.

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