Kunstmuseum Bern - Zentrum Paul Klee
Spectacular art transport from the Federal Chancellery in Berlin to the Kunstmuseum Bern
Kirchner x Kirchner
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Dear media representatives,
Today, after 50 years in the cabinet room, Ernst Ludwg Kirchner’s oil painting Sonntag der Bergbauern (Sunday of the Mountain Farmers) is leaving the Federal Chancellery, and will be shown from 12 September 2025 in the exhibition Kirchner x Kirchner in Kunstmuseum Bern. The painting is known to a wide public by the fact that it is visible evening after evening on the German television news in the background of the German government’s Cabinet sessions.
Because of the monumental dimensions of the oil painting, which is 4 m long and 1.70 m high, the artwork had to be carried over the terrace of the Federal Chancellery and heaved down into the Court of Honour with a crane.
After this, the painting Neue Sterne (New Stars) Meret Oppenheim (1913-1985) from the collection of Kunstmuseum Bern was lifted by crane. Kunstmuseum Bern is lending the Federal Chancellery the painting by one of the most important Swiss painters of the 20th century in return.
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Warm regards,
Anne-Cécile Foulon
Head of Communication & Marketing
Kunstmuseum Bern – Zentrum Paul Klee
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