The Römerholz collection

The Oskar Reinhart collection comprises around 200 works of European art from the fourteenth to the twentieth centuries. A selection of outstanding paintings of Old Masters (such as Mathis Gothart Nithart, called Matthias Grünewald, and Lucas Cranach the Elder) is combined with important works of nineteenth-century French painting, which constitute the main strength of the collection. The art collector Oskar Reinhart left the collection and his villa to the Swiss Confederation in his will dated 26 February 1958. The museum that came out of this bequest was opened to the public in 1970.

Works in the collection

• German masters of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries
• Italian and Spanish paintings from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries
• Netherlandish and Dutch paintings from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries
• French art of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
• Classicism, Romanticism and Realism
• Impressionism
• Post-Impressionism
• The twentieth century
• Tapestries and sculptures

German masters of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries

• Mathis Gothart Nithart, called Matthias Grünewald (c. 1480–1528)
• Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472–1553)
• Hans Holbein the Younger (c. 1497/98–1543)

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Italian and Spanish paintings from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries

• Jacopo da Ponte, called Jacopo Bassano (c. 1515–1592)
• Francesco Guardi (1712–1793)
• Dominikos Theotokópoulos, called El Greco (1541–1614)
• Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746–1828)
  
  

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746–1828) Still Life with Bottles, Fruit and Olive Jar, 1808–12 Oil on canvas	Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746–1828) Still Life with Three Salmon Steaks, 1808–12 Oil on canvas

Netherlandish and Dutch paintings from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries

• Geertgen tot Sint Jans (c. 1465–c. 1490/95), follower
• Gerard David (c. 1460–1523)
• Quentin Massys (1465/66–1530)
• Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525/30–1569)
• Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640)
• Frans Hals the Elder (1582/83–1666)
• Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606–1669)
• Willem Drost (c. 1630–after 1680)
• Arent de Gelder (1645–1727)
• Aert van der Neer (1603/04–1677)
• Philips Koninck (1619–1688)

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French art of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

• Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665)
• Jean-Siméon Chardin (1699–1779)
• François Boucher (1703–1770)
• Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732–1806)

Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732–1806) Don Quixote Reading, c. 1780–90 Black chalk and bistre wash on buff paper

Classicism, Romanticism and Realism

• John Constable (1776–1837)
• Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825)
• Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780–1867)
• Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863)
• Théodore Géricault (1791–1824)
• Camille Corot (1796–1875)
• Honoré Daumier (1808–1879)
• Gustave Courbet (1819–1877)
  
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Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825) Portrait of Baroness Pauline Jeanin, 1812 Oil on canvas	Gustave Courbet (1819–1877) The Wave, 1870 Oil on canvas

Impressionism

• Camille Pissarro (1830–1903)
• Edgar Degas (1834–1917)
• Alfred Sisley (1839–1899)
• Claude Monet (1840–1926)
• Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919)
• Edouard Manet (1832–1883)
• Paul Cézanne (1839–1906)
  

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Post-Impressionism

Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) The Courtyard of the Hospital at Arles, 1889 Oil on canvas	Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) The Ward in the Hospital at Arles, 1889 Oil on canvas	Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901) The Clown Cha-U-Kao, 1895 Oil on canvas

The twentieth century

Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Portrait of Mateu Fernández de Soto, 1901 Oil on canvas

Tapestries and sculptures

Besides paintings and drawings, the collection also owns a number of sixteenth-century textiles and a small group of sculptures. They include works by:

• Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919)
• Auguste Rodin (1840–1917)
• Aristide Maillol (1861–1944)
• Charles Despiau (1874–1946)
• Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (1861–1929)
• Renée Sintenis (1888–1965)
• Hermann Hubacher (1885–1976)

Aristide Maillol (1861–1944) La Méditerranée, c. 1905–07 Limestone

© 2009 Federal Office of Culture, Berne, and the translators