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Apart from the works of art now in the Römerholz Collection, Oskar Reinhart also owned a large number of important works by German, Swiss and Austrian artists of the eighteenth to twentieth centuries. Until the 1950s, they were all together with the nineteenth-century French paintings and Old Masters at the Villa ‘Am Römerholz, but in 1951 Oskar Reinhart donated this separate collection to the town of Winterthur along with his extensive graphic works. These works are now housed at the Museum Oskar Reinhart am Stadtgarten (www.museumoskarreinhart.ch).
From 1908 to 1960, a number of collections were formed in Switzerland that share similarities with the Oskar Reinhart Collection ‘Am Römerholz’. The focus of interest was always the great French artists of Impressionism, pre-Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. However, unlike similar Swiss collectors, Oskar Reinhart did not add important works of contemporary art to his collection but made room for his other passion for Old Masters and German art.
In the early twentieth century, the small Swiss industrial town of Winterthur began to take an interest in French art, thus paving the way for Oskar Reinhart, whose collecting took place mainly in the 1920s – it was by then charted territory, and he could adapt his collecting to suit his inclinations.
Some of these Swiss private collections are now museums that can be visited:
Private Art Collections
When the Collections of the Prince of Liechtenstein returned to Vienna, a loose association was formed between leading private art collections in and around Austria, of which the Oskar Reinhart Collection ‘Am Römerholz’ is a member. The aim of this international collaboration is to promote joint projects and future events.
Private Art Collections
www.liechtensteinmuseum.at/de/pages/1496.asp
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