{"id":8417,"date":"2025-08-19T02:42:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T02:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/8417\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T02:42:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T02:42:20","slug":"bern-exhibition-reunites-kirchner-paintings-after-92-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/8417\/","title":{"rendered":"Bern exhibition reunites Kirchner paintings after 92 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/52371b28e3d092590091259224149c898c7bfeca-89848906.jpg\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" alt=\"Bern exhibition reunites pair of Kirchner paintings after 92 years\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Bern exhibition reunites pair of Kirchner paintings after 92 years            <\/p>\n<p>            Keystone-SDA        <\/p>\n<p>            Listen to the article        <\/p>\n<p>            Listening the article        <\/p>\n<p>                Toggle language selector            <\/p>\n<ul class=\"read-aloud\/track-selector__options\">\n<li>\n<p>                            English (US)                        <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>                            English (British)                        <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>            Generated with artificial intelligence.        <\/p>\n<p>        The painting Sonntag der Bergbauern (Alpsonntag) [Sunday of the Mountain Farmers (Alp Sunday)] by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938) is being transferred from Berlin to Bern to feature in an upcoming exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Bern.\n<\/p>\n<p>        This content was published on    <\/p>\n<p>        August 18, 2025 &#8211; 09:48\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/latest-news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>+Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The huge work by the German expressionist painter and printmaker, which has hung in the German Chancellery since the mid-1970s, will be shown together with its counterpart, Alpsonntag. Szene am Brunnen (Alp Sunday. Scene at the Fountain), in Bern.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that Sonntag der Bergbauern is now coming to Bern was agreed with the Federal Chancellery in Berlin and approved by the head of the Chancellery. Following the start of its journey, the painting will only arrive in Bern around a week before the start of the exhibition, the Kunstmuseum Bern told the Keystone-SDA news agency.<\/p>\n<p>\n    More<\/p>\n<p>    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/c8efb03b7af01e37c7956d47c124a35aa0923862-89449236.jpg\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" alt=\"Kirchner painting on show again in Basel after more than 100 years\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        More    <\/p>\n<p>        Kirchner painting on show again in Basel after more than 100 years    <\/p>\n<p class=\"teaser-wide-card__excerpt\">\n<p>                        This content was published on                    <\/p>\n<p>                        Jun 3, 2025                    <\/p>\n<p>                The painting \u201cDance in a Variety Theatre\u201d by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was thought to be lost for decades. Now it is on public display at the Kunstmuseum Basel for the first time in over 100 years.            <\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"teaser-wide-card__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/various\/kirchner-painting-on-show-again-in-basel-after-more-than-100-years\/89451206\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>            Read more: Kirchner painting on show again in Basel after more than 100 years<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The two paintings were first shown together in 1933. At that time, they opened the most extensive Kirchner retrospective in the artist\u2019s lifetime at the Bern Kunsthalle. Kirchner himself curated the exhibition and wrote the catalogue.<\/p>\n<p>The pair of paintings are important works by the German expressionist. They will hang in the Kunstmuseum\u2019s Kirchner x Kirchner exhibition from September 12 to January 11, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Translated from French with DeepL\/sb<\/p>\n<p>                How we work            <\/p>\n<p>We select the most relevant news for an international audience and use automatic translation tools to translate them into English. A journalist then reviews the translation for clarity and accuracy before publication.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Providing you with automatically translated news gives us the time to write more in-depth articles. 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