Kunstmuseum Bern - Zentrum Paul Klee
Reunited at last after more than 90 years! Sensational loan from Berlin
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Dear media representatives,
A major work by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Sonntag der Bergbauern (Sunday of the Mountain Farmers), is about to leave the Federal Chancellery in Berlin. The painting is known to a wide public because almost every evening it has been visible on the television news in the background of the German government’s Cabinet sessions. Exceptionally, it is now being allowed to leave its customary place, to appear as a guest in the Kunstmuseum Bern. For the first time since its joint exhibition with its pendant, Alpsonntag. Szene am Brunnen (Alp Sunday. The Scene at the Well) in 1933, the two paintings will be shown together, reunited, in the autumn exhibition Kirchner x Kirchner in the Kunstmuseum Bern, where they will form the sensational highlight of the exhibition.
Between 12 September 2025 and 11 January 2026, the Kunstmuseum Bern is showing the exhibition Kirchner x Kirchner. It features around 65 top-class works by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938) which are rarely shown in Switzerland. The artist is considered as one of the most outstanding protagonists of modern art. With this exhibition, the Kunstmuseum Bern is recalling the largest retrospective in the artist’s lifetime, held in the Kunsthalle Bern in 1933 and curated by the artist himself.
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Warm regards,
Anne-Cécile Foulon
Head of Communication & Marketing
Kunstmuseum Bern – Zentrum Paul Klee
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