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Kunstmuseum Bern renovation setback shadows director’s tenure

Departing director Nina Zimmer reflects on her future in Vienna and her role in reshaping Switzerland’s approach to ...
Artnet

Cézanne’s Heirs and the Kunstmuseum Bern Reach a Historic Agreement Over a Mysterious Cézanne in the Gurlitt Trove

It’s unclear exactly how Paul Cézanne’s 1897 painting La Montagne Sainte-Victoire ended up in the collection of the Nazi-era art dealer Hildebrand Gurlitt. But it did, and this problematic fracture in ...
Phys.org

Arrowhead housed at Bern History Museum found to be made from meteoritic iron

An international team of geologists and historians has found that an arrowhead housed at the Bern History Museum was made using meteoritic iron. In their paper published in Journal of Archaeological ...
Bluewin

Bern Art Museum gives up ownership of Sisley painting

Keystone According to findings from provenance research, the Kunstmuseum Bern is giving up its ownership of a work by the English painter Alfred Sisley. Heirs of the Jewish entrepreneur Carl Sachs, ...
Artnet

The Notorious Gurlitt Trove of Nazi-Tainted Art Makes Its First Appearance at Kunstmuseum Bern

After a lengthy legal tug-of-war, the controversial Gurlitt collection has arrived at the Kunstmuseum Bern. Items from the trove were presented to an eager press by museum officials on Friday. The ...
The Art Newspaper

Bern museum sells $4m Manet painting from Gurlitt art hoard

The Bern Museum of Fine Art is selling a painting by Édouard Manet that is one of the most valuable of around 1,500 works it inherited from Cornelius Gurlitt, a reclusive hoarder whose hidden ...