Hodler – Segantini – Giacometti
Masterpieces from the Gottfried Keller Foundation
24 March – 28 July 2019
#museo d’arte della Svizzera italiana, #lugano at #laclugano Arte e Cultura
Curated byTobia Bezzola and Francesca Benini
Press conference: Friday, 22 March 11:00 Opening: Saturday, 23 March 18:00
Press release
Lugano, March 2019
From 24 March through 28 July 2019 #museo d’arte della Svizzera italiana, in partnership with the Swiss National Museum in Zurich and the Federal Office of Culture, presents a major exhibition of works from the collection of Fondazione Gottfried Keller. The exhibition brings together great masterpieces from the collection stored in Swiss museums, including works by Hodler, Segantini and Giacometti.
Almost 60 years after it was last presented to the public, #museo d’arte della Svizzera italiana (MASI) hosts masterpieces from Fondazione Gottfried Keller, one of Switzerland’s most important national collections of from twelfth- to twentieth-century Swiss art, now managed by the Federal Office of Culture. The exhibition, curated by director Tobia Bezzola and Francesca Benini, the museum’s scientific partner, consists primarily of nineteenth and twentieth century paintings, with significant incursions into previous centuries documenting some of Switzerland’s greatest artists.
The exhibition begins with Giovanni Serodine's La Vergine dei Mercedari (The Virgin of the Mercedari, 1620-1625, Pinacoteca Cantonale Giovanni Züst, Rancate), continuing with important eighteenth-century works by Liotard, Petrini, Wolf, Füssli and Sablet and nineteenth-century works by Calame, Zünd, Böcklin, Koller, Anker, Hodler, Segantini and many more. When Fondazione Gottfried Keller was founded in 1891, Lydia Welti-Escher appointed Arnold Böcklin as a member of the Commission, while painter Albert Anker was appointed by the Federal Council. In the exhibition, the artist from Basil is represented by important works including Die Toteninsel (Isle of the Dead, 1880, Kunstmuseum Basel), a famous example of his evocative painting. The painting was purchased for Kunstmuseum Basel in 1920, along with another masterpiece of Swiss painting, Ferdinand Hodler’s Der Auserwählte (The Chosen One, 1893-94), in storage in the Kunstmuseum in Berne, a painting in which the artist applies the compositional principle based on symmetry that was to become a distinguishing feature of his Symbolist painting. The work is exhibited along with the landscape Abend am Genfersee (Evening on Lake Lemano, 1895, Kunsthaus Zürich), one of Hodler’s favourite subjects for this genre of painting.
Giovanni Segantini's famous Alpine Triptych La Natura, La Vita, La Morte (Life, Nature and Death, 1896-1899), kept at #museo Segantini in St. Moritz, will be exhibited south of the Alps for the first time since 1899. The painting was purchased by the Foundation in 1911, allowing the Engadin museum to expand its collection of the artist’s works and make them its main attraction. The triptych will stay on at MASI after the exhibition closes, in the centre of the exhibition Sublime. Luce e paesaggio intorno a #giovannisegantini (Sublime: Light and landscape around Giovanni Segantini), Works by Meyer-Amden and Auberjonois – the first contemporary artists to appear in the collection, in the sixties – Amiet, Vallotton, Itten and Giacometti take us into another century. In the twentieth century, Felix Vallotton and other artists of his time rediscovered the genre of still life, as demonstrated in a 1914 painting from Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts in Lausanne. The exhibition concludes with a sculpture: Alberto Giacometti's Buste di Annette (Bust of Annette, 1964, Musée d’art et Histoire Genève), in which the woman’s face captures all the energy and motion characteristic of the Swiss sculptor’s work.
Finally, the exhibition also includes a number of works from the artistic heritage of the Ticino included in the collections of MASI and other museums in the region. These include two paintings by Filippo Franzoni, Self-portrait (1900-05) and Saleggi di Isolino (1890-95), from the collections of the City of #lugano and the Canton Ticino, respectively; the above-mentioned La Vergine dei Mercedari (1620-25) by Giovanni Serodine, in storage at Pinacoteca Cantonale Giovanni Züst, Rancate; and Dame in Pelz (1919) by Cuno Amiet from Pinacoteca Comunale Casa Rusca in Locarno.
At the same time as the exhibition at MASI, between 14 February and 22 April 2019 the Swiss National Museum in Zurich will go over the history of Fondazione Gottfried Keller and the variety of its collection through an exhibition of precious items such as specimens of the goldsmith’s art, paintings on glass, drawings, paintings and sculptures from the twelfth to the twentieth century. With the support of the Swiss Confederation, the exhibitions in #lugano and Zurich commemorate the bicentennial of the birth of Alfred Escher, father of Lydia Welti-Escher, who founded the Foundation, and Gottfried Keller, to whom it is dedicated.
List of artists on exhibit
Giovanni Serodine (1594 ca –1630)/ Giuseppe Antonio Petrini (1677–1759)/ Jean-Etienne Liotar (1702–1789)/ Caspar Wolf (1735–1783)/ Johann Heinrich Füssli (1741–1825)/ Jacques Sablet (1749–1803)/ Louis-Léopold Robert (1794-1835)/ Charles Gleyre (1806 -1874)/ Alexandre Calame (1810–1864)/ Albert Anker (1810-1864)/ Barthélemy Menn (1815-1893)/ Arnold Böcklin (1827-1901)/ Robert Zünd (1827-1909)/ Rudolf Keller (1828-1905)/ Frank Buchser (1828-1890)/ Otto Frölicher (1840-1890)/ #ferdinandhodler (1853-1918)/ Filippo Franzoni (1857–1911)/ #giovannisegantini (1858-1899)/ Albert Welti (1862-1912)/ Félix Vallotton (1865- 1925)/ Giovanni Giacometti (1868-1933)/ Max Buri (1868-1915)/ Cuno Amiet (1868-1961)/ Alice Bailly (1872–1938)/ Réne Auberjonois (1872-1957)/ Adolf Dietrich (1877-1957)/ Otto Meyer-Amden (1885-1933)/ Johannes Itten (1888-1967)/ Albert Müller (1897-1926)/ François Barraud (1899-1934)/ #albertogiacometti (1901-1966)
flanked by important landscape paintings from the MASI collection painted around the same time.
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11. F. Vallotton Nature morte, 1914
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10. G. Serodine Vergine dei Mercedari, 1620-25
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09. G. Segantini Trittico della natura, 1896-99 - Photo FotoFlury
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09-3. G. Segantini La morte 1896-1899
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09-2. G. Segantini La natura 1897-1899
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09-1. G. Segantini La vita 1896-1899
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08. F. Hodler Abend am Genfersee, 1895
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07. F. Hodler AuserwÑhlte, 1893-94
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06. A. Giacometti Buste d'Annette, 1964
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05. J.H. Fuessli Die SÅnde vom Tod verfolgt, 1794-96
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04. F. Franzoni, Saleggi di Isolino, 1890-95
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03. A. Calame Grand Eiger, 1844
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02. A. Bîcklin Die Toteninsel, 1880
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01. A. Anker Kleinkinderschule, 1900
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