Kirchner Museum Davos
The museum is home to the world's largest collection of Kirchner's works
The Kirchner Museum in Davos exhibits the many & faceted work of the German artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938), in the very place where he lived and worked for many years. Kirchner lived in Davos from 1918 until his death in 1938. The Alpine landscape was the inspiration of many of his major works. Thanks to its collection of the works of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, which has no equal anywhere in the world, its comprehensive documentary archive on the artist’s life and work and its library specialising in Expressionism, the Kirchner Museum is now one of the world’s leading exhibition venues and research centres for classical modernism. The museum possesses more than fifty paintings, along with hundreds of other works of art (drawings, photographs and printed graphic designs). Designed by architects Annette Gigon and Mike Guyer and inaugurated in 1992, the museum building is an item of international architectural interest in its own right. The collection includes approximately 50 paintings, 7 sculptures and 700 drawings and watercolours, along with 300 woodcarvings, etchings and lithographs, 160 sketchbooks containing more than 9,000 drawings, 900 photographs and 20 textile works embroidered or woven according to Kirchner’s original designs. The museum also holds special exhibitions dedicated to other classical-modernist and contemporary art and artists.
Kirchner Museum
Promenade 82
7270 Davos
Tel. +41 (0)81 410 63 12
Access to the library catalog: www.opac.gr.ch
For the latest information on opening hours, admission prices and guided tours, visit the institution's website.