Winterthur - The Oskar Reinhart Collection ‘Am Römerholz’

Click on the images for a direct Link ...

The Oskar Reinhart Collection ‘Am Römerholz’ in Winterthur is one of the most important private collections of the twentieth century. Oskar Reinhart (1885–1965) had a keen eye for fine European art from the fourteenth to the early twentieth centuries. However, he was mainly interested in nineteenth-century French art, particularly the Impressionists. To that core interest he added individual works from earlier periods.

      
His house, the Villa ‘Am Römerholz’, built from 1915 to 1918, and its picture gallery, which was added in 1925, were bequeathed to the Swiss Confederation, along with the works of art that now constitute the Oskar Reinhart Collection ‘Am Römerholz’. The villa and its historic grounds offer a stunning setting for this outstanding collection. Today the site also includes a café, so offering food for the body as well as the mind.

Closure

The museum will be closed for modernisation from 14 December 2008 until mid-2010.

Most of the Oskar Reinhart Collection ‘Am Römerholz’ will remain accessible to the public in an exhibition. The show will present works from the Römerholz, along with paintings and drawings from the other collection put together by Oskar Reinhart, now housed in the Museum Oskar Reinhart am Stadtgarten, where the exhibition will take place.

In Dialogue – The Two Oskar Reinhart Collections, Winterthur
Museum Oskar Reinhart am Stadtgarten
Stadthausstrasse 6, Winterthur
19 February 2009 to 1 August 2010

Further information about the exhibition is provided at www.museumoskarreinhart.ch