Kunsthaus Zurich

On a quest for lunch between museums, David and I wandered towards the Lindenhof elevated park area overlooking the Limmat River, and found a part of the city we didn't even know existed. Cobblestone streets, narrow alleys, mysterious corners, covered walkways. We passed a Roman artifact from 200AD. We ate delicious Flammkuchen at a little restaurant, and felt restored.

Next stop: Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich's main art museum. Boy, do they have some of everything. A veritable alphabet of famous artists (at least from C to V). We saw works by, for example:

Cézanne

Chagall

Courbet

Dalí

El Greco (did you know his real name was Domenico Theotocopoulos?)

Fra Angelico (a painting from 1445; that's a long time ago)

Gauguin

Giacometti

Hans Holbein the Elder

Magritte

Manet

Matisse

Miró

Monet

Picasso

Pissarro

Pollock

Renoir

Rodin

Rubens

Sisley

Van Gogh

Veronese

This museum kept our attention for one hour and forty-five minutes. After starting our day's exploration at 11:30, two museums and a city-tour later, our legs gave out around 5:30pm. Here are some highlights of the master works we admired:

Picasso - the Fountain, 1899

Van Gogh -  1889 - the Cyprus & the Flowering Tree

Monet - Houses of Parliament

Matisse, 1908

René Magritte

Sisley "The Road"

Signac - Rotterdam, 1906

Piet Mondrian

Giovanni Giacometti, 1910, "Winter in Maloja"

Robert Zünd, 1882 - Eichenwald

Giovanni Panini, 1734, St. Peter's Cathedral in Rome - if you've been there, you can see this is very evocative of it!

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