Kunstmuseum

Frommer's Review

The Kunstmuseum (Fine Arts Museum) and the Neues Kunstmuseum (Modern Art Museum) have fused into a single museum of art. The fine arts collection consists primarily of Swiss art from the Renaissance to the present, with an exceptional collection of paintings from the early and high Baroque periods. Highlights of the baroque collection include works by Kaspar Megliner and Franz Ludwig Raufft. There are also remarkable portraits by 18th-century artists such as Felix Maria Diogg and Josef Reinhard. The collection is strong in 19th-century landscape painting, including works by Alexandre Calamle, Robert Zünd, and Ferdinand Hodler. More modern and more controversial works focus on the "Zurich Concrete Artists" who flourished in the 1980s and 1990s.

The modern art collection, of course, focuses on more contemporary works, most of them avant-garde. But there is also a permanent collection of works which are rotated. Some of these go back to the 15th century.

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