Female couples play a significant part in the realist artist Gustave Courbet’s works. Learn more about this very sensual painting that so palpably illustrates the physical intimacy of the two young women. From the podcast series featuring highlights of the Kunstmuseum Bern’s collection.

Learn more about the oil painting depicting the Grindelwald Glacier, which was executed around 1777 by the famous Swiss landscape painter Caspar Wolf. The painting served as a model for a copperplate engraving that was, during the artist's lifetime, sold to tourists as a souvenir in folders containing various Alpine scenes. From the podcast series featuring highlights of the Kunstmuseum Bern’s collection.

Juan Gris reduced figures and objects to their basic forms and shapes in his paintings. He also combined motifs such as guitars, drinking glasses, and pieces of fruit in ever new compositions. Juan Gris belongs to the leading representatives of cubism together with Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. From the podcast series featuring highlights of the Kunstmuseum Bern’s collection.

Do you know who the patron saint of painters is since early medieval times? Learn more about the artist Niklaus Manuel Deutsch and his work. From the podcast series featuring highlights of the Kunstmuseum Bern’s collection.

What is depicted in this work: a pyramid, the mountain of the Muses, or Niesen of the Swiss Alps? Learn more about the painting and its artist Paul Klee, who decisively influenced 20th-century art with his highly diverse work. From the podcast series featuring highlights of the Kunstmuseum Bern’s collection.

How did the artist Paul Cézanne see and portray himself? Learn more about the French artist and his self-portrait. From the podcast series featuring highlights of the Kunstmuseum Bern’s collection.

Learn more about Albert Anker's painting depicting the children of a day nursery walking over the Bernese Kirchenfeld bridge. The work is one of this famous artist's last large-format oil paintings. From the podcast series on the highlights of the Kunstmuseum Bern Collection.

Learn more about these two lovers who meet on a spring day in the garden of an Italian country house. The renowned Swiss painter Arnold Böcklin was a prominent symbolist artist. From the podcast series on the highlights of the Kunstmuseum Bern Collection.

Georges Braque's painting shows the houses of a French fishing village not far from Marseille. Learn more about this famous cubist landscape painting. From the podcast series on the Highlights of the Kunstmuseum Bern Collection.

Duccio di Buoninsegna's painting of the Virgin as the Mother of God with the child Jesus still fascinates us today. Learn more about this richly decorated devotional image that the Sienese painter executed while also working on the famous Madonna Rucellai. From the podcast series on the highlights of the Kunstmuseum Bern Collection.