Winter tales
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Claude Monet: The Magpie, 1868/69, oil on canvas (Musée d‘Orsay, Paris / © RMN/Hervé Lewandowski) Kunsthaus Zürich -
Giovanni Giacometti: Winter Fog, 1910, oil on canvas (Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich Friends of the Arts) Kunsthaus Zürich -
Pieter Brueghel the Younger: Return from the Inn, after 1616 (The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Gift of the Maxwell family, 1955) Kunsthaus Zürich -
The Months of the Year (Lucas Months): Merriment on the Ice (January) Tapestry, Bruges, c.1650 (Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Kunstkammer) Kunsthaus Zürich -
Kasimir Malevich: Morning in the Village after Snowstorm, 1912, oil on canvas (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York) Kunsthaus Zürich -
Pierre Maximilien Delafontaine: Bertrand Andrieu as a Skater, 1798, oil on canvas (Musée de la Monnaie, Paris) Kunsthaus Zürich -
Emile Claus: The Skaters, 1890/91, oil on canvas (Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Gent) Kunsthaus Zürich -
Hippolyte Sebron: The Great Cataract at Niagara, 1857, oil on canvas (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen) Kunsthaus Zürich -
Edvard Munch, Winter Night, c.1900, oil on canvas (© The Munch Museum/The Munch-Ellingsen Group / 2011 ProLitteris, Zurich) Kunsthaus Zürich -
Charles de Groux: The Coffee Roaster, 1857, oil on canvas (Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp) Kunsthaus Zürich -
Carl Friedrich Lessing: Monastery Courtyard in the Snow, c.1829, oil on canvas (Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud, Cologne) Kunsthaus Zürich -
Camille Pissarro: White Frost, 1873, oil on canvas (Musée d‘Orsay, Paris, © RMN/Hervé Lewandowski) Kunsthaus Zürich
How artists see the cold season.
This content was published on February 9, 2012 - 11:15
The Kunsthaus fine arts museum in Zurich is holding an exhibition of winter in art from the Renaissance to Impressionism. It features more than 100 items, among them works by such names as Monet, Pissarro and Giovanni Giacometti.
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