The exhibition ranges across the history of Swiss art from the 1780s to the 1950s. Exercise sheets, notebooks and sketches offer an opportunity to observe the fascinating moment when a work of art is initially conceived. The first stop in this journey features sheets extracted from academic studies and unfinished projects accumulated in artists’ satchels. What follow are the stages that lead to creation of the landscape, history painting or large decorative mural. Created away from the public gaze, ultimately these works take us to the artists’ innermost thoughts.
The exhibition ranges across the history of Swiss art from the 1780s to the 1950s. Exercise sheets, notebooks and sketches offer an opportunity to observe the fascinating moment when a work of art is initially conceived. The first stop in this journey features sheets extracted from academic studies and unfinished projects accumulated in artists’ satchels. What follow are the stages that lead to creation of the landscape, history painting or large decorative mural. Created away from the public gaze, ultimately these works take us to the artists’ innermost thoughts.