Kirchner Museum Davos

All the important themes in Kirchner's oeuvre are represented: both studio, nude and circus scenes, portraits, figure and landscape paintings from his Die Brücke period to his late work, while living in Switzerland.

In order to reach a broad audience, the museum not only offers guided tours through the exhibitions, but also workshops with programs for children, young people, schoolchildren and adults, and hikes following in Kirchner's footsteps, to the Stafelalp or to his grave in the Davos forest cemetery.

A number of 160 sketchbooks by Kirchner, published in book form in 1996 as a catalog raisonné, are made accessible through complete digitization.

Among the private sponsors who had pledged to contribute to the remaining funding were the World Economic Forum and the Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Foundation.

[6] In response, German fashion entrepreneur Uwe Holy decided against donating the Ulmberg collection – comprising around 100 works by artists including Kirchner and contemporaries such as Max Beckmann, Emil Nolde and Lyonel Feininger, as well as post-war artists such as Francis Bacon, Pierre Soulages and Louise Bourgeois – to the Kirchner Museum.

[7] The Kirchner Museum Davos was the first major commission that the Zürich architects Annette Gigon and Mike Guyer carried out.

They are connected by a branched foyer with wide window fronts, which is meant as a place for reflection, and at the same time opens up a view of the alpine landscape that was si inspirational for Kirchner.