About the museum
The story of the Kunsthaus Zürich
The Kunsthaus Zürich is Switzerland's largest art museum. Its main building on the Heimplatz opened in 1910, and David Chipperfield's extension, opened in 2021, brought in the collection of the E. G. Bührle Foundation.
It covers European art from the Middle Ages to today, with a great group of Impressionists, the largest collection of Edvard Munch outside Norway and works by Alberto Giacometti.
The collection
The Kunsthaus belongs to the Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft, an association of art lovers founded in 1787. Its collection covers Swiss art from Füssli and Hodler, European old masters, Impressionism, Munch, Chagall and the Swiss-born sculptor Alberto Giacometti.
Since 2021 it has also shown the Emil Bührle collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings on long-term loan, an arrangement that has prompted debate about the collection's history.
At ArtLogia you can order 52 of its paintings as hand-painted reproductions, by 27 artists led by Vincent van Gogh, Édouard Manet and Henry Fuseli.
- paintings to order
- 52
- artists
- 27
- art movements
- 10
- years covered
- 1572–1930
The building
Karl Moser designed the original building, opened in 1910. David Chipperfield's extension across the Heimplatz, joined to it by an underground passage, made the Kunsthaus the largest art museum in Switzerland.
Masterpieces to see
Planning a visit
The Chipperfield building across the square holds the Bührle collection and the French Impressionists.
