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Kunstmuseum Bern hosts First Monographic Exhibition of Works by Guercino |
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| Written by Alfred Carlsvald |
| Sunday, 21 March 2010 01:48 |
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 Guercino was not only a great painter, however, he was
also one of the most gifted draughtsmen of his time. With a supreme mastery of
the technical means at his disposal, he captured with great subtly the ambience
surrounding the depicted motif - be it a dramatic story which he recorded on the
sheet in a sweeping line, or the play of light and shadow in his chalk or
charcoal crayon figure studies. The Uffizi houses one of the world's largest and most important collections of drawings by Guercino. The exhibition in Bern comprises a selection of 50 sheets from all periods of his oeuvre and all genres - figure and compositional studies, landscape and genre scenes - and 42 drawings by his workshop staff and successors. In addition to many well-known masterpieces the exhibition also includes numerous sheets that have as yet never been published or shown. In order to give the local viewers an impression of the artistic context, the exhibition in Berne will be complemented by a small selection of drawings by those Bolognese artists who influenced Guercino, namely, Ludovico and Annibale Carracci, Guido Reni and Domenichino. Examples of two or three paintings that have a bearing on the drawings in the exhibition will also provide an impression of Guercino's painterly oeuvre. That this exhibition can be shown at the Kunstmuseum Bern after its presentation in Florence is a stroke of luck for the Swiss viewer. It is actually the first monographic exhibition of works by Guercino to be held in Switzerland. The Museum of Fine Arts Bern is the oldest art museum in Switzerland with a permanent collection and houses works covering eight centuries. Works by Paul Klee, Pablo Picasso, Ferdinand Hodler and Meret Oppenheim have made the Museum of Fine Arts Bern an institution with an international reputation. At the present time, the constantly growing and evolving collection consists of over 3,000 paintings and sculptures as well as 48,000 drawings, prints, photographs, videos and films. The roots of the museum’s history reach back to the revolutionary ideas proliferating towards the end of the 18th century which, in 1809, led to the founding of the National Art Collection in Bern and, in 1879, to the opening of the first museum building. Visit : http://www.kunstmuseumbern.ch/ Click on logo below to add this article to your favorite Social Website ~ |
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