Museum
Kunstmuseum Luzern
Lakefront art museum inside a Jean Nouvel building, built on a doctor's decades-long gift of expressionist paintings.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Kunstmuseum Luzern follows Doctor Walter Minnich, a Swiss lung specialist in Montreux who befriended the German painter Max Pechstein in nineteen nineteen and spent decades collecting his work, alongside pieces by Chaim Soutine, Moriz Melzer and other expressionists. It traces what that friendship demanded once Nazi Germany turned on Pechstein in the nineteen thirties. Look for the paintings that trace back to a private correspondence rather than an auction house.
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