In 1904 Constantin Brancusi walked all the way from Romania to Paris, where he first worked for Auguste Rodin for a time, but he didn’t endure the overpowering master for long.

Welcome to the Kunst Museum Winterthur, and welcome to our tour that begins here in the stairwell of the museum.

Robert Delauney’s window pictures impressed Paul Klee, but it took a long time for Klee to find his own way to incorporate this enthusiasm in his own works.

Piet Mondrian is the epitome of the abstract painter. He cherished the term,“ abstract,“ which to him was the fundamental and the universal quality of art untrammelled by detail that could give expression to the deepest, underlying structures.

In the 1920s Impressionism had already become a thing of the past. It was only the old man Claude Monet who still worked in this style.

Van Gogh lived in Arles in Café de la Gare. It was here that he got to know the postmaster Joseph Roulin, who was a regular customer.