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Günter Brus , Der Stillschweigbefehl (Order to Remain Silent), 1988

Günter Brus

Der Stillschweigbefehl (Order to Remain Silent), 1988

In the 1960s, Günter Brus, a recent Fine Art graduate, joined the Viennese Actionist school, one of the most radical, protest-driven art movements of the…

Francesco da Rimini , Naissance de la Vierge (The Birth of the Virgin), c. 1320–30

Francesco da Rimini

Naissance de la Vierge (The Birth of the Virgin), c. 1320–30

This representation of the birth of the Virgin bathes in the universality of the divine presence manifested by the gold ground. At the centre, we…

Charles Gleyre

Femme turque (Dudo Narikos) [Turkish woman (Dudo Narikos)], 1840

On his return to Paris in 1838 after a lengthy journey in the Mediterranean in the pay of the American John Lowell Jr., Charles Gleyre…

Luca Giordano , Le jugement de Salomon (The Judgement of Solomon), c. 1670–85

Luca Giordano

Le jugement de Salomon (The Judgement of Solomon), c. 1670–85

This painting illustrates an episode in the Old Testament. Two prostitutes, who had given birth at the same moment, both claim to be the mother…

Jean-Pierre Saint-Ours, Le tremblement de terre (The Earthquake), 1806

Jean-Pierre Saint-Ours

Le tremblement de terre (The Earthquake), 1806

Trained in Paris in the studio of Joseph-Marie Vien, Saint-Ours set up in Rome in 1780. In 1792 he returned to Geneva to fight for…

François Diday , Le glacier du Rosenlaui (The Rosenlaui Glacier), 1841

François Diday

Le glacier du Rosenlaui (The Rosenlaui Glacier), 1841

François Diday studied fine art in Geneva and then in Antoine-Jean Gros’ studio in Paris. He showed his work regularly at the Paris Salon, where…

Auguste Baud-Bovy , Lioba! Berger de l’Oberland bernois rappelant son troupeau (Lioba! A Shepherd in the Bernese Oberland Calling back His Flock), 1886

Auguste Baud-Bovy

Lioba! Berger de l’Oberland bernois rappelant son troupeau (Lioba! A Shepherd in the Bernese Oberland Calling back His Flock), 1886

In 1882, Auguste Baud-Bovy left Geneva for Paris to be with his Communard friends and the artists of the French-Swiss colony. During his time there…

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…

Jacques Sablet, Portrait de famille avec la Basilique de Maxence (Family Portrait with the Basilica of Maxentius), 1791

Jacques Sablet

Portrait de famille avec la Basilique de Maxence (Family Portrait with the Basilica of Maxentius), 1791

This painting, the companion piece to the Museum's Portrait de famille avec le Colisée (Family Portrait with the Colosseum, 1791), similarly shows a group of…

Jacques Sablet, Autoportrait (Self-Portrait), circa 1778

Jacques Sablet

Autoportrait (Self-Portrait), circa 1778

The soft brushwork and warm brown tones in this self-portrait of Jacques Sablet in his travelling coat are typical of the artist's first period, influenced…

Alexandre Calame, Le lac de Brienz (Lake Brienz), 1843

Alexandre Calame

Le lac de Brienz (Lake Brienz), 1843

Alexandre Calame’s talent was first spotted in 1829 by the banker Jacques-Amédée Diodati, who paid for him to study with François Diday, the master of…

Ernest Biéler, Devant l’église de Saint-Germain à Savièse (Outside the Church of Saint-Germain in Savièse), 1886

Ernest Biéler

Devant l’église de Saint-Germain à Savièse (Outside the Church of Saint-Germain in Savièse), 1886

Born in the Canton of Vaud, Ernest Biéler moved to Paris in the early 1880s but continued to live in Switzerland from time to time.…

François Bocion, Lac et pêcheurs (Lake and Fishermen), 1885

François Bocion

Lac et pêcheurs (Lake and Fishermen), 1885

François Bocion spent most of his life by Lake Geneva, exploring its shoreline in both Switzerland and France. Many works painted in Yvoire, Évian and…

Giovanni Giacometti, Maloja en hiver or Piz Lagrev (Maloja in Winter or Piz Lagrev), 1929

Giovanni Giacometti

Maloja en hiver or Piz Lagrev (Maloja in Winter or Piz Lagrev), 1929

When Ferdinand Hodler died in 1918, Giovanni Giacometti became one of the leading figures on the Swiss German art scene, rivalled only by with Cuno…

Jannis Kounellis , Untitled Paint, 1965

Jannis Kounellis

Untitled Paint, 1965

Jannis Kounellis left his native Greece for Rome in 1956. During his studies, he was influenced by artists such as Lucio Fontana and Alberto Burri…

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…

Julian Charrière , Pacific Fiction – Study for Monument, 2016

Julian Charrière

Pacific Fiction – Study for Monument, 2016

Faithful to the heritage of conceptual art, fascinated by land art and especially by Robert Smithson, influenced by Olafur Eliasson’s teaching at the Institut für…

Charles Giron

Jeune femme au piano (Young Woman at the Piano) or Portrait de Mlle Maguie D. (Portrait of Mlle Maguie D.), 1880

For the Swiss, Charles Giron’s most emblematic work is undoubtedly Le berceau de la Confédération (The Cradle of the Confederation, 1901), a gigantic Alpine landscape…

Nam June Paik , Global Groove, 1973

Nam June Paik

Global Groove, 1973

One of the founders of video art, Nam June Paik produced a vast corpus of works comprising video tapes, televisual productions, performances and installations. In…

Gustave Buchet , L’Esprit nouveau (The New Spirit), 1925/8

Gustave Buchet

L’Esprit nouveau (The New Spirit), 1925/8

The titles of the opening chapters of Après le cubisme (After Cubism) [1918] reflect the questions of Amédée Ozenfant and Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (better known as…

Giovanni Giacometti, Alberto che legge (Alberto Reading), c. 1915

Giovanni Giacometti

Alberto che legge (Alberto Reading), c. 1915

This portrait shows the home in Stampa where Giovanni Giacometti spent the last four decades of his life. By the time Alberto, the first of…

Pauline Boudry, Renate Lorenz , Normal Work, 2007

Pauline Boudry, Renate Lorenz

Normal Work, 2007

Born in Lausanne and based in Berlin since the late 1990s, Pauline Boudry has developed a practice that embraces film and video on the one…

Albert Oehlen , Ohne Titel (Untitled), 1981

Albert Oehlen

Ohne Titel (Untitled), 1981

Having trained at the Hamburg Hochschule für bildende Künste in the late 1970s, Albert Oehlen is part of the generation of artists who have focused…

Charles Gleyre

La danse des bacchantes (The Dance of the Bacchants), 1849

An exclusively female affair, the bacchanal takes place under the implacable gaze of a hieratic priestess who is the guardian of the altar supporting the…

Daniel Spoerri , Aktion Restaurant Spoerri. Tableau-piège (Aktion Restaurant Spoerri. Trap-Painting), 1972

Daniel Spoerri

Aktion Restaurant Spoerri. Tableau-piège (Aktion Restaurant Spoerri. Trap-Painting), 1972

In 1960, Pierre Restany and Yves Klein created the new realist group. Many artists, including Daniel Spoerri, Arman, Martial Raysse and Jean Tinguely, signed the…

Ernest Biéler, Femme en bleu (Woman in Blue), 1913

Ernest Biéler

Femme en bleu (Woman in Blue), 1913

Ernest Biéler’s dire financial situation forced him to leave Paris in 1892. He returned to Switzerland, yet happiness eluded him, whether in Geneva, where he…

Émilienne Farny

Rue de l’Armorique (Façade), c. 1970

From 1962 to 1972 Émilienne Farny lived in Paris, in the 14th arrondissement. As a painter, her focus was always on reality. In the French…

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