Exhibition: Goya to Impressionism. Masterpieces from the Oskar Reinhart Collection

(image : Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864 – 1901), The Clown Cha-U-Kao, 1895. Image- The Swiss Confederation, Federal Office of Culture, Oskar Reinhart Collection ‘Am Römerholz’, Winterthur)

The Courtauld Gallery presents an exceptional selection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings in the first ever exhibition of the Oskar Reinhart Collection ‘Am Römerholz’ to be staged outside of Winterthur, Switzerland. This exhibition is a unique opportunity to see some of its masterpieces – including works by Goya, Monet, Renoir, Van Gogh, Picasso,and Cezanne among others.

The exhibition opens with a group of major paintings by artists who preceded the Impressionists, including Goya’s highly charged Still Life with Three Salmon Steaks (c.1808-12), Géricault’s  moving A Man Suffering from Delusions of Military Rank (c.1819-22) and Courbet’s provocative The Hammock (1844).

At the heart of the exhibition are some of the greatest paintings of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, including Toulouse-Lautrec’s striking representation of the female performer  The Clown Cha-U-Kao (1895), Manet’s groundbreaking depiction of modern life  Au Café (1878), and a group of sensational works by Renoir and Cezanne.  A further highlight is the pair of celebrated paintings by Van Gogh, A Ward in the Hospital at Arles and The Courtyard of the Hospital at Arles (1889), which illustrate the hospital where he had been a patient following his earlier mental breakdown and the mutilation of his ear, as seen in Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear in The Courtauld’s collection.

About the Oskar Reinhart Collection ‘Am Römerholz’

The Oskar Reinhart Collection ‘Am Römerholz’ in Winterthur, Switzerland, is one of the most remarkable art museums of its kind, with a collection that ranges from superlative old master paintings and drawings to a fabled group of Impressionist art. Featuring over 200 works of art, the collection was assembled in the first half of the 20th century by Oskar Reinhart (1885-1965), whose family was associated with one of the world’s leading trading companies.  Reinhart bequeathed his collection and house to the Swiss confederation, and it opened as a public museum in 1970 in his beautiful, large villa on the outskirts of Winterthur, close to Zurich, called ‘Am Römerholz’.

Oskar Reinhart was a direct contemporary of Samuel Courtauld, founder of The Courtauld Institute of Art. They shared a similar taste in artists and are known to have met in 1932, the year when The Courtauld was founded. The Reinhart Collection’s close affinities with that of The Courtauld Gallery’s permanent collection provide the perfect context to stage this unprecedented exhibition, which brings many of Reinhart’s paintings to the United Kingdom for the very first time.

Tickets available for April – May.

14 Feb – 26 May 2025
Denise Coates Exhibition Galleries, Floor 3