Built in 1877 from Johann Christoph Kunkler’s architectural plans, the Kunstmuseum St.Gallen is one of Switzerland’s outstanding classicist buildings. In its function as a visual archive for the region of eastern Switzerland, it houses an important collection of valuable paintings and sculptures from the late Middle Ages to the present that is supplemented and kept update by an attractive program of changing exhibitions.

The collection of the Kunstmuseum St.Gallen can boast – along with significant prints by Dürer, Rembrandt and Callot – of a first artistic highpoint in 17th century Dutch and Flemish painting with fine works by Teniers, Ruysdael and de Heem. Nineteenth century Swiss, German and French painting is represented by masterpieces from Romanticism to Impressionism – namely, Spitzweg to Böcklin, Delacroix to Monet – while art from the turn of the century is also well documented, thanks to significant work groups by Hodler and his followers as well as to select paintings by Liebermann, Corinth and Von Stuck. The section on modern art encompasses excellent paintings and drawings by Kirchner, Taeuber-Arp, Klee, Warhol as well as choice installations by Merz, Serra, Paik, Signer and Rist.

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