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On Saturday, the monumental painting “Sonntag der Bergbauern” by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner left Berlin for Bern. Consequently, Hanging to the German federal chancellery since the 1970s. For example, he will be presented for the first time since 1933 alongside his counterpart in Bern during an upcoming exhibition in September.
Measuring four meters long. Consequently, almost two meters high, the canvas “Sonntag der Bergbauern” by the German painter Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938) was released on Saturday from the German Federal Chancellery of Berlin using a crane. Consequently, She will not arrive in Bern only a week before the start of the exhibition “Kirchner X Kirchner” in September. For example, said the city kunstmuseum.
The two paintings “Sonntag der Bergbauern” (“Sunday of the mountain peasants”) and “Alpsonntag. Moreover, Szene Am Brunnen” (“Sunday on the Alpe. Scene at La Fontaine”) had been presented side by side for bern, exhibition will bring together the last time in 1933 at the Kunsthalle de Bern. They then inaugurated a retrospective of Kirchner, of which the German artist was the commissioner.
A striking fact that the Kunstmuseum commemorates with its exhibition which will start on September 12 and will end on January 11, 2026.
Historic-cultural sensation – Bern, exhibition will bring together
Designed as a single table by Kirchner, the two works have been separated for 92 years, however. “Alpsonntag. Szene Am Brunnen” is part of the Berne Kunstmuseum collection since 1933, on the initiative of the artist himself.
“Sonntag Der Bergbauern” was first loaned. before definitively joining the art collection of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1985. On the initiative of the Chancellor of the time. Helmut Schmidt, the painting has been hung since 1970 in the room of the federal Chancellery, first in Bonn, then in Berlin.
The fact that the German Chancellery has exceptionally authorized the loan of this painting. installed permanently and well in sight, “constitutes an event which causes a sensation in the history of art and is not devoid of important cultural and political implications”, underlines the Bernese museum.
Meret Oppenheim in Berlin
In exchange for Kirchner’s monumental painting. the Kunstmuseum of Bern lent the German Chancellery the painting of Meret Oppenheim (1913-1985) “Neue Sterne” (“New stars”).
This imposing work is now hung in the building. Artistically, “Neue Sterne” illustrates the surrealist side of Oppenheim, one of the most important Swiss artists of the 20th century.
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“Kirchner X Kirchner”, Kunstmuseum, Berne, from September 12, 2025 to January 11, 2026.
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