Periods

Although Oskar Reinhart focused more on painters than on periods, he was not interested in acquiring a representative selection of any single artist's oeuvre. Instead, he sought out only the finest works currently available for purchase. His special affinity with painterly art also led him to disregard painting with strong symbolic content. Despite this lack of concern for comprehensiveness his collection contains examples of the most important styles. Visitors thus become acquainted not only with a sequence of outstanding artistic achievements, but also with a concise history of art in Europe from the fourteenth century to the early twentieth.

France, Germany and Austria, 15th and 16th centuries

Italy and Spain, 14th to 19th century

The Netherlands, 15th to 17th century

France, 17th and 18th century

Britain and France, 19th century: Neoclassicism, Romanticism and Realism

France, 19th and early 20th century: Impressionism

France, 19th and early 20th century: Post-Impressionism; Switzerland, 20th century

Sculptures and tapestries