The collection

The Kunsthaus Zürich is home to one of Switzerland’s most important art collections, with around 4,000 paintings and sculptures as well as 95,000 prints and drawings from the 13th century to the present day. Around 10% of them are on permanent display.

Highlights of the collection

Andy Warhol, Big Torn Campbellʼs Soup Can (Vegetable Beef), 1962, Kunsthaus Zürich, © 2019 ProLitteris, Zurich

Adriaen Coorte, Spargelbund mit Kirschen und Schmetterling, c. 1693–1695, Kunsthaus Zürich, Permanent loan from a private Swiss collection, 2016

Albrecht Dürer, Rhinocerus (Das Rhinozeros), 1515, Kunsthaus Zürich

Fischli / Weiss, Kanalreiniger, 1987, Kunsthaus Zürich, Vereinigung Zürcher Kunstfreunde, Gruppe Junge Kunst, 1987, © 2019 Peter Fischli / David Weiss, Courtesy der Künstler und Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich / New York

Sigmar Polke, Levitation, 2005, Kunsthaus Zürich, Vereinigung Zürcher Kunstfreunde, © The Estate of Sigmar Polke, Cologne / 2019 ProLitteris, Zurich

Piet Mondrian, Komposition mit Rot, Blau und Gelb, 1930, Kunsthaus Zürich, donated by Alfred Roth, 1987

Georg Baselitz, Nachtessen in Dresden, 1983, Kunsthaus Zürich, © 2019 Georg Baselitz

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Der Apostel Simon, 1661, Kunsthaus Zürich, Ruzicka-Stiftung, 1949

Slider_small_Segantini_Giovanni 2.png — Giovanni Segantini, Pascoli alpini, 1893/1894, Kunsthaus Zürich

Cindy Sherman, Untitled #132, 1984, Kunsthaus Zürich, © 2019 Cindy Sherman

Slider_small_Gogh_Vincent-van_02 2.png — Vincent van Gogh, Cabanes blanches aux Saintes-Maries, Kunsthaus Zürich, donated by Walter Haefner, 1995

Pipilotti Rist, Das Glas, 1998, Kunsthaus Zürich, © 2019 Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth and Luhring Augustine

Claude Monet, Le bassin aux nymphéas, le soir, 1916/1922, Kunsthaus Zürich, donated by Emil G. Bührle, 1952

Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Mouvement de lignes, 1939, Kunsthaus Zürich, donated by Hans Arp in memory of his wife, 1958

Danh Vo, We the People (Detail), 2011–2014, Kunsthaus Zürich, purchased with the support of Swiss Re - Partner for contemporary art, 2014, © 2019 Danh Vo. All rights reserved.

Cy Twombly, Anabasis, 1983, Kunsthaus Zürich, © 2019 Cy Twombly Foundation

Jeff Wall, Tattoos and Shadows, 2000, Kunsthaus Zürich, Vereinigung Zürcher Kunstfreunde, 2002, © 2019 Jeff Wall

Auguste Rodin, La porte de lʼenfer, 1880–1917, Kunsthaus Zürich, donated by Emil Georg Bührle, 1949

Félix Vallotton, Bain au soir dʼété, 1892/1893, Kunsthaus Zürich, Fondation Gottfried Keller, Office fédéral de la culture, Berne, 1965

Ugo Rundinone, No. 32, SIEBENUNDZWANZIGSTERJUNIZWEITAUSENDUNDDREI, 2003, Kunsthaus Zürich, © 2019 Ugo Rundinone

Max Ernst, La ville entière, 1935/1936, Kunsthaus Zürich, © 2019 ProLitteris, Zurich

Alberto Giacometti, Le chariot, 1950, Kunsthaus Zürich, Alberto Giacometti-Stiftung, © Succession Alberto Giacometti / 2019, ProLitteris, Zurich

Highlights include not only the largest collection of Munch paintings outside Norway and the most comprehensive collection of works by Alberto Giacometti but also Impressionist and Classical Modernist paintings from Monet, Picasso and Chagall to Kokoschka, Beckmann and Corinth.

Pop Art from Warhol and Hamilton appears alongside artists including Rothko, Twombly, Beuys and Baselitz. Video installations and photographs by Fischli/Weiss, Pipilotti Rist and others bring the story into the 21st century.

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Events in the collection

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The Collection of Prints and Drawings comprises some 95,000 works on paper, including 37,000 drawings that are especially valuable because they are one-offs made by the artists themselves. Since works on paper are extremely fragile and sensitive to external influences such as light, temperature and climatic changes, they cannot be exhibited permanently. However, selected works can be viewed in the Prints and Drawings Collection study room on request.

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Image rights and reproductions

If you would like to reproduce works from the Kunsthaus Zürich’s collection in publications, you can obtain usage rights and order images. You can also obtain digital reproductions of all the works in the collection. Individual usage permits can also be supplied electronically, and data can be delivered in the same way.

Advice and contact
franca.candrian@kunsthaus.ch, +41 44 253 84 21