Franz Gertsch. Blow-Up (Part II) | Switzerland Tourism

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Date

19. September 2026 - 28. February 2027

Sun, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat	10:00 - 17:00

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Museum Franz Gertsch
Platanenstrasse 3
3401 Burgdorf
Phone +41 (0)34 421 40 20
museum-franzgertsch.ch

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Intro

The retrospective "Franz Gertsch. Blow-Up", shown in two parts in the Kunstmuseum Bern and the Museum Franz Gertsch, offers an overview of an artistic career lasting more than sixty years.

Franz Gertsch (1930–2022) is seen as a Swiss pioneer of photorealism and a master of the modern woodcut. The retrospective Franz Gertsch. Blow-Up, shown in two parts in the Kunstmuseum Bern and the Museum Franz Gertsch, offers an overview of an artistic career lasting more than sixty years, including monumental paintings of the youth and music scene from the 1970s, iconic portraits of women from the 1980s, family paintings and portraits of artist friends, epic landscapes and images of nature.

Exhibition at the Museum Franz Gertsch (19.09.2026–28.02.2027)

Vernissage on Friday, 18 September 2026

The focus at the Museum Franz Gertsch is on a selection of paintings and subjects the artist produced between 1970 and 2021: The first room is dedicated to the rock poet Patti Smith, whom Franz Gertsch portrayed five times between 1978 and 1979. The second room features portraits of a young Luciano Castelli. Franz Gertsch painted the artist from Lucerne thirteen times between 1971 and 1977. The group of works in the third exhibition room revolves around Irene Staub. She belonged to Luciano Castelli’s circle of friends and was known as a high-class sex worker in Zurich who went by the name “Lady Shiva”. The fourth room showcases large-format paintings featuring Franz Gertsch’s central models 'Johanna' (1983–1985) and 'Silvia' (1998–2004), as well as important landscape motifs the artist revisited time and again, both in his paintings and in his woodcuts: Waldweg (Campiglia Marittima) [Forest Path (Campiglia Marittima)] and Gräser [Grasses]. These themes, as well as Silvia, Pestwurz [Butterbur], Sommer [Summer], and Meer [Sea] also feature in a collection of woodcuts presented in the smaller rooms in the annex of the Museum Franz Gertsch.

With works by Franz Gertsch, Luciano Castelli and Roswitha Hecke.

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Contact

Museum Franz Gertsch
Platanenstrasse 3
3401 Burgdorf
Switzerland

Phone +41 (0)34 421 40 20
Fax +41 (0)34 421 40 21
info@museum-franzgertsch.ch
museum-franzgertsch.ch

Date

19. September 2026 - 28. February 2027

Sun, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat	10:00 - 17:00

Contact

Museum Franz Gertsch
Platanenstrasse 3
3401 Burgdorf
Phone +41 (0)34 421 40 20
museum-franzgertsch.ch

Check Availability

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