Hand-Painted Fine Art Reproductions of Famous Paintings

The collection of the Museum of Art Lucerne consists primarily of Swiss art from the Renaissance through to the present day. It contains exemplary paintings from the early and high Baroque, by Kaspar Meglinger and Franz Ludwig Raufft as well as a comprehensive series of portraits by 18th-century artists such as Johann Melchior Wyrsch, Felix Maria Diogg, Anton Graff and Josef Reinhard.
One central area is formed by Swiss painting of the 19th century, particularly landscape painting, represented by artists including Alexandre Calame and Robert Zünd . An outstanding group of works by Ferdinand Hodler and representative groups by Hans Emmenegger and Felix Vallotton provide the collection's highlights in the area of early 20th-century art. As a gift from Dr Walter and Alice Minnich, their collection of important paintings by Vlaminck, Soutine and Pechstein came into the possession of the Museum in 1937.
In the first two decades of its existence, the Bernhard Eglin Foundation, established in 1933 on the basis of a legacy from the Lucerne lithographer Bernhard Eglin, purchased numerous key works in the present-day collection, making it possible to include works by the ‘Zurich Concrete Artists' during the 1980s and 1990s, as well as important representatives of Swiss ‘Art Informel' since the 1950s.
Prominent in the collection is art produced from the 1970s onwards. From a regional point of view, with works by internationally active Central Swiss artists such as André Thomkins, Urs Lüthi, Aldo Walker and Rémy Markowitsch. From an international point of view with works by artists including Paul Thek, Michael Buthe, Ana Mendieta and Giuseppe Penone. Since that period, which coincides with the curatorship of Jean-Christophe Ammann, the museum's international and contemporary exhibition activity has been reflected in the collection. The expansion of the collection has continued in this direction from the 1980s until the present day – Tony Cragg, Richard Deacon, Boyle & Hills, Jeff Wall, or Anton Henning and Rosemary Laing might be mentioned as notable examples.