MUSEUM NEWS

Mar 28 - Jul 27, 2025
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum
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From Renoir and Monet to Degas, Gauguin and Cézanne: the Swiss Museum Langmatt is considered one of the most important private collections of French Impressionism in Europe. Sidney and Jenny Brown brought together the collection at the beginning of the 20th century in their Art Nouveau villa in Baden near Zurich, which has been open to the public as a museum since 1990. As the building and grounds are currently undergoing a general refurbishment, Cologne now offers a unique opportunity to admire the Impressionist masterpieces outside Switzerland for the first time.

Under the title ‘Swiss Treasures’, the extraordinary Langmatt Collection is a guest at the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud, where it meets highlights from the local collection - a dialogue that promises fascinating encounters. The extraordinary presentation of around 150 exhibits is rounded off by historical hangings reconstructed using archive photographs from the Museum Langmatt. The ‘Swiss Treasures’ exhibition reveals the many facets of French Impressionism and emphasises the outstanding quality of both collections.

This year, Gérard Corboud (1925-2017), art lover, collector and patron, would have been one hundred years old. In 2001, the Swiss bequeathed his important Impressionism collection to the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum as a permanent loan. Since then, the Cologne museum has borne the name ‘& Fondation Corboud’. With its exhibition ‘Swiss Treasures’, the museum commemorates its generous patron and friend.