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The Museum of Fine Arts Bern (German: Kunstmuseum Bern), established in 1879 in Bern, is the museum of fine arts of the de facto capital of Switzerland.

Kunstmuseum Bern

Established	1879
Location	8–12 Hodler Street Bern, Switzerland
Type	Art museum
Director	Dr. Nina Zimmer
Website	www.kunstmuseumbern.ch

Its holdings run from the Middle Ages to the present. It houses works by Paul Klee, Pablo Picasso, Edmond Jean de Pury, Ferdinand Hodler, Méret Oppenheim, Ricco Wassmer and Adolf Wölfli. The collection consists of over 3,000 paintings and sculptures as well as 48,000 drawings, prints, photographs, videos and films.

In May 2014, the museum was named sole heir in the will of Cornelius Gurlitt, the German collector associated with the 2012 Munich artworks discovery.[1][2][3] The authorities had found over 1,400 artworks, many of them suspected to be stolen from European Jews by the Nazis, in Gurlitt's homes in Munich and Salzburg. The museum was given six months to decide whether it would accept the bequest and its terms.[4] The most important provision required that the museum conduct research into the provenance of the paintings and make restitution where needed to the heirs of the original owners. The museum director, Matthias Frehner, pledged that it would do so if it accepted the bequest.[5] The German government quietly urged the museum to accept the collection in order to provide a neutral place where research into its history could continue. (There was concern that if the collection were dispersed among Gurlitt's distant relatives, there would be no guarantee that they would conduct the research properly.) Determining whether or not to accept required much deliberation on the part of the museum board, work by its legal team, and significant fundraising from Swiss donors, so that the museum would not be reliant on German funding that could taint the neutrality of the provenance research.[6] In November 2014 the board voted to accept the collection.[7]

In August 2018, an episode of Fake or Fortune featured the director of the museum Dr. Nina Zimmer asking the team to investigate what appears to be the sole British piece of art in the Gurlitt collection.[8]

References

External links

Media related to Kunstmuseum Bern at Wikimedia Commons

• Official Museum of Fine Arts Bern website — info on history + collections.
• Credit-suisse.com: Interview with the Director of Bern Museum of Fine Arts

На других языках

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[de] Kunstmuseum Bern

Das Kunstmuseum Bern ist eines der ältesten Kunstmuseen der Schweiz. Seit August 2016 wird es – gemeinsam mit dem Zentrum Paul Klee – von der Kunsthistorikerin Nina Zimmer geleitet.[2]

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- [en] Museum of Fine Arts Bern

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[es] Museo de Bellas Artes de Berna

El Museo de Bellas Artes de Berna, llamado en alemán Kunstmuseum Bern y fundado en 1879.[1]

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[fr] Musée des Beaux-Arts de Berne

Le musée des Beaux-Arts de Berne, appelé en allemand Kunstmuseum Bern est un musée fondé en 1879 dont la collection recouvre une période de huit siècles, du Moyen Âge à l'art contemporain.

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[it] Kunstmuseum Bern

Il Kunstmuseum (in italiano: museo dell'arte) è un museo d'arte antica, arte moderna ed arte contemporanea, e si trova in Hodlerstrasse 8-12 a Berna in Svizzera.

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[ru] Бернский художественный музей

Бернский художественный музей (нем. Kunstmuseum Bern) — художественная галерея в швейцарском городе Берн, основанная в 1849 году как «собрание бернского художественного общества» — старейший художественный музей конфедерации; в 1879 году открылся в собственном здании; постоянная коллекция содержит работы, созданные как в период Средневековья, так и в XXI веке; проводит временные выставки, включая экспозиции произведений современного искусства.

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