This painting depicts the second Unspunnen Festival, which took place on 17. August 1808. The Artist attended the Festival in the Bernese Oberland in company with Madame de Stael who is standing arm in arm with an elegantly dressed gentleman in the centre of the picture. Can you find the artist herself in the painting ? From the podcast series featuring highlights of the Kunstmuseum Bern’s collection.

Stauffer-Bern often drew and painted from photographic templates. His primary artistic concerns were to depict nature as a source and to create realistic representations of his motifs. From the podcast series featuring highlights of the Kunstmuseum Bern’s collection.

August Macke was one of the renowned expressonist artists. In the year our picture was painted, he was living in Bonn, joined the "Blue Rider" group of artists in Munich and visited the painter Robert Delaunay in Paris with Franz Marc. From the podcast series featuring highlights of the Kunstmuseum Bern’s collection.

Learn more about how Odysseus outwitted Achilles and also why the artist Joseph Werner was among the most important painters and sparkling personalities in 17th-century Bern. From the podcast series featuring highlights of the Kunstmuseum Bern’s collection.

The famous Bern artist Albrecht Kauw presents in his still life a rich selection of fish as we might have found served in a patrician household during his lifetime. Kauw follows Netherlandish painting in his art while depicting the lifestyle and situation of the proud Bernese landowners. From the podcast series featuring highlights of the Kunstmuseum Bern’s collection.

The human face is a key motif in Alexej von Jawlensky’s oeuvre. This is also true for Sinnende Frau: her gaze seems lost in the distance and to nevertheless focus on the beholder. Learn more about Alexej Jawlensky and the style of art he worked in. From the podcast series featuring highlights of the Kunstmuseum Bern’s collection.

Allowing us a view of her private sphere, a young woman sits in a sparsely furnished room of a middle-class household while reading intently. The Swiss artist Felix Vallotton explored the subject of a reading woman in a variety of ways with diverse models sitting for him. From the podcast series featuring highlights of the Kunstmuseum Bern’s collection.

Already early in his artistic career, Franz Marc was intensely fascinated by the world of animals—and felt a strong bond to them. We can palpably perceive this in Blaues Pferd II, where viewers have the impression that they experience the world from the perspective of a horse. Learn more about Franz Marc’s development as an artist and the different stages of his artistic career. From the podcast series featuring highlights of the Kunstmuseum Bern’s collection.

Elongated forms are an unmistakeable characteristic of Amadeo Modigliani’s work—and are obvious in this portrait of Elvira too. During the artist’s lifetime this female nude created quite a scandal. What is your reaction to it? From the podcast series featuring highlights of the Kunstmuseum Bern’s collection.

The sunflower is a recurrent motif in Vincent van Gogh’s artworks, and is also depicted in this oil painting. Are you curious about what symbolic meaning the sunflower had for this artist? From the podcast series featuring highlights of the Kunstmuseum Bern’s collection.