Kahnweiler & Rupf. A friendship between Paris and Bern

The Rupf Collection, on permanent loan to the Kunstmuseum Bern, is closely associated with the story of the important gallery owner and defender of the Cubists, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler. Bern businessman Hermann Rupf’s activity as a collector began around 1907 – as the first client of Kahnweiler’s gallery in Paris.

Hitherto unpublished archive material reflects for the first time the precarious years between 1933 and 1945, when in spite of adverse circumstances Rupf and Kahnweiler maintained their close contact, corresponded about artists and art or conversed about everyday matters such as condensed milk and illnesses. The exhibition casts light on the collection with particular reference to this friendship in extraordinary times.

We cordially invite you and your friends to the vernissage!

The following persons will speak:

Nina Zimmer
Director Kunstmuseum Bern – Zentrum Paul Klee

Mark Ineichen
President of the Hermann und Margrit Rupf Foundation

Susanne Friedli
Co-Curator of the exhibition

Thomas Sarbacher reads from the correspondence between Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler and Hermann Rupf.

Limited number of participants, no guarantee of a seat

We look forward to seeing you! We will take photos at the vernissage. Please let us know if you do not wish to appear in published pictures.