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The painting "Sunday of the Mountain Farmers" by Ernst-Ludwig Kirchner is carried out of the Federal Chancellery. It is now traveling to Bern, where it will be shown to the public together with its counterpart in the Museum of Art from September.
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The fact that "Sunday of the Mountain Farmers" is now coming to Bern was agreed with the Federal Chancellery in Berlin and approved by the Head of the Chancellery. Following the start of its journey, the painting will arrive in Bern around a week before the start of the exhibition, according to the Kunstmuseum Bern in response to an inquiry from the Keystone-SDA news agency.
The two paintings "Sonntag der Bergbauern" and "Alpsonntag. Scene at the Fountain" were shown together in 1933. At that time, they opened the most extensive Kirchner retrospective in the artist's lifetime at the Bern Kunsthalle. Kirchner himself curated the exhibition and wrote the catalog.
The pair of paintings is a key work by the German expressionist. It will hang in the Kunstmuseum's "Kirchner x Kirchner" exhibition from September 12 to January 11, 2026.
The monumental painting "Sunday of the Mountain Farmers" by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938) has made the journey from Berlin to Bern. It has been hanging in the German Chancellery since the mid-1970s. Now it is to be shown together with its counterpart in Bern.
17.08.2025, 16:00