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René Auberjonois , Maquette pour le rideau de scène de L’Histoire du Soldat (Scale model stage curtain for The Soldier’s Tale), 1918

René Auberjonois

Maquette pour le rideau de scène de L’Histoire du Soldat (Scale model stage curtain for The Soldier’s Tale), 1918

In 1916, as the First World War was raging, Pablo Picasso designed a stage curtain for Parade. The show with texts by Jean Cocteau and…

Auguste de Niederhäusern, dit Rodo, Les Initiés (The Initiates), 1898

Auguste de Niederhäusern, dit Rodo

Les Initiés (The Initiates), 1898

Auguste de Niederhaüsern studied industrial art and fine art in Geneva before moving to Paris in 1886, where he joined the studios of the sculptors…

Albert Anker, Les Petites Brodeuses (The Little Embroideresses), 1875

Albert Anker

Les Petites Brodeuses (The Little Embroideresses), 1875

This painting is the perfect example of how Swiss painters based abroad adapted their output to local markets. Albert Anker trained at the Vaud-born master…

Albert Anker, La reine Berthe et les fileuses (Queen Bertha and the Spinners), 1888

Albert Anker

La reine Berthe et les fileuses (Queen Bertha and the Spinners), 1888

A woman is busy teaching four girls hand-spinning. The activity lets Albert Anker form a diagonal across the centre of the composition, from the basket…

Auguste Veillon, Un soir à Brunnen (Brunnen, Evening), 1867

Auguste Veillon

Un soir à Brunnen (Brunnen, Evening), 1867

Auguste Veillon abandoned his theology studies in Lausanne to attend François Diday's art studio in Geneva. He then travelled to Paris to study on his…

Albert Anker, Le secrétaire de commune (The Commune Secretary), 1875

Albert Anker

Le secrétaire de commune (The Commune Secretary), 1875

Here, Albert Anker paints a pivotal administrative figure in every Swiss commune. In nineteenth-century Switzerland, the commune secretary held considerable power thanks to his legal…

Albert Anker, Le Nouveau-né (The Newborn), 1867

Albert Anker

Le Nouveau-né (The Newborn), 1867

Albert Anker's charming painting of a family welcoming a new baby dates from the year his own son Ruedi was born. The tightly framed composition…

René Auberjonois , Ubu roi, 1935

René Auberjonois

René Auberjonois moved to Paris in October 1896. There, he may have attended the premier of Alfred Jarry's play Ubu Roi, performed by the Théâtre…

René Auberjonois , Grand nu couché or Nu étendu avec chien (Large reclining nude or Nude reclining with dog), 1922/1923

René Auberjonois

Grand nu couché or Nu étendu avec chien (Large reclining nude or Nude reclining with dog), 1922/1923

On September 30, 1923, the poet Gustave Roud described René Auberjonois in La Gazette de Lausanne as an unfairly overlooked master of ‘pure painting’, adding…

Luc Andrié , 2008 (14) (from the series L’homme blanc n’a plus de peau [The white man no longer has a skin]), 2008

Luc Andrié

2008 (14) (from the series L’homme blanc n’a plus de peau [The white man no longer has a skin]), 2008

At private performances in his studio, Luc Andrié, dressed only in underpants or wearing a ridiculous military cap, plays roles and recreates attitudes observed elsewhere,…

René Auberjonois , Nature morte aux fourchettes (Still Life with Forks), 1953

René Auberjonois

Nature morte aux fourchettes (Still Life with Forks), 1953

In his final years, René Auberjonois rose to international fame at the 1948 Venice Biennale and the 1955 Kassel Documenta. His unwavering commitment to figurative…

René Auberjonois , La route valaisanne (Road in the Valais), 1940 - 1941

René Auberjonois

La route valaisanne (Road in the Valais), 1940 - 1941

René Auberjonois first stayed in the Valais in 1902 and was stunned by the ‘great spectacle of the landscapes’. His life soon acquired a pendulum…

Cuno Amiet, Portrait d'Anna Amiet (Portrait of Anna Amiet), 1923

Cuno Amiet

Portrait d'Anna Amiet (Portrait of Anna Amiet), 1923

Solothurn-born Cuno Amiet, a long-standing friend of Giovanni Giacometti since their days studying art in Munich and sharing lodgings and a studio in Paris in…

Aloïse (Aloïse Corbaz, dite) , Materdolorosa, 1922

Aloïse (Aloïse Corbaz, dite)

Materdolorosa, 1922

Lausanne-born Aloïse Corbaz was a governess who was employed at the court of Wilhelm II in Germany for a while. On her return to Switzerland…

Aloïse (Aloïse Corbaz, dite) , La Couronne Impériale de la terre royale. Cahier Pâques 1943 (The Imperial Crown of the Royal Land. Easter sketchpad 1943), 1943

Aloïse (Aloïse Corbaz, dite)

La Couronne Impériale de la terre royale. Cahier Pâques 1943 (The Imperial Crown of the Royal Land. Easter sketchpad 1943), 1943

Aloïse was fifty-seven and in her twenty-third year as a patient at the Gimel asylum when she filled the twenty pages of this sketchpad with…

René Auberjonois , Autoportrait (Self-Portrait), 1929

René Auberjonois

Autoportrait (Self-Portrait), 1929

René Auberjonois frequently tried his hand at self-portraits. He was familiar with the difficulties of the exercise. As he wrote in 1916, ‘It is a…

Karel Appel

Varkensmens (Pig Man) or L’arcade (The Arcade), 1961

Karel Appel reacted to the devastation of the Second World War by creating paintings that grappled with the savagery of his experiences while expressing the…

Richard Artschwager , Splatter Piano II, 1995

Richard Artschwager

Splatter Piano II, 1995

Richard Artschwager’s oeuvre was influenced by his mother, an artist, and his father, a botanist. Though he studied science and then earned a living for…

Kader Attia , Culture, Another Nature Repaired, 2014

Kader Attia

Culture, Another Nature Repaired, 2014

For nearly twenty years, Kader Attia has been interested in the question of repair, understood in both senses, as the action of repairing – an…

Francis Alÿs , Railings, 2004

Francis Alÿs

Francis Alÿs has been walking since 1990. He started his walks in Mexico City, his chosen home since 1986, and has continued in São Paulo,…

Judith Albert , Nu à l’écharpe orange (Nude with Orange Scarf), 2009

Judith Albert

Nu à l’écharpe orange (Nude with Orange Scarf), 2009

From the mid-1990s on, Judith Albert worked with moving images, exploring their potential for capturing subtle variations such as almost imperceptible changes in light, pose…

Emmanuelle Antille, As Deep as Our Sleep, As Fast as Your Heart II, 2001

Emmanuelle Antille

As Deep as Our Sleep, As Fast as Your Heart II, 2001

Emmanuelle Antille studied at the École supérieure des arts visuels in Geneva and the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam and has been working in…

Aloïse (Aloïse Corbaz, dite)

Sphinx Fath – Marie Stuart. Feuille du rouleau double face Le Réveillon avec toi (Sphinx-Fath – Mary Stuart. Sheet of double-sided roll Christmas Eve with You), 1950

Throughout her life, Aloïse was fascinated by needle and thread. Trained at the Professional Couture School in Lausanne, she made her dresses herself and was…

Eduardo Arroyo , Robinson Crusoé, 1965

Eduardo Arroyo

Robinson Crusoé, 1965

The figure: a man dressed in animal skins, with rags wrapped around his feet and a Tyrolean style hat with feathers on his head. His…

Magdalena Abakanowicz, Tête (Head), 1983

Magdalena Abakanowicz

Tête (Head), 1983

Exhibited at several editions of the Biennale de la Tapisserie organised at the Museum between 1962 and 1995, Abakanowicz’s woven works, the Abakans (1966–75), shown…

Albert Anker, La Mariette aux fraises (Mariette with Strawberries), 1884

Albert Anker

La Mariette aux fraises (Mariette with Strawberries), 1884

After a youth spent between Anet, Neuchâtel and Bern, Albert Anker put his two languages (French and German) to use in conquering the art markets…

John M Armleder, Furniture Sculpture 189, 1988

John M Armleder

Furniture Sculpture 189, 1988

In 1969, John M Armleder organised his first public event, the Ecart Happening Festival, in Geneva. This marked the creation of the Ecart group, part…

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