Vivre Notre Temps!: Bonnard, Vallotton And The Nabis

Félix Vallotton, La charrette, 1911, Kunstmuseum Bern, Dauerleihgabe Hahnloser/Jaeggli Stiftung

The Nabis group, founded in 1888 around the artists Pierre Bonnard, Maurice Denis, Félix Vallotton and Édouard Vuillard, symbolically represents the collapse of Impressionism and the beginnings of modern art. Vivre Notre Temps!: Bonnard, Vallotton And The Nabis addresses the tensions between subject and painting surface, and the associated change from figurative to abstract painting. The juxtaposition of works by their most important models Paul Gauguin and Odilon Redon and the Nabis artists captures the moment in which artistic vocabulary has been reassessed. "Vivre notre temps!" was the maxim Arthur and Hedy Hahnloser followed in collecting art. After the exhibition, the Hanhloser/Jaeggli Collection will return to its place of origin, to the Villa Flora in Winterthur.

Situate the objects in this exhibition in the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History