The Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts (french: Musée

cantonal The 26 cantons of Switzerland (german: Kanton; french: canton ; it, cantone; Sursilvan and Surmiran: ; Vallader and Puter: ; Sutsilvan: ; Rumantsch Grischun: ) are the member states of the Swiss Confederation. The nucleus of the Swiss Confe ...

des Beaux-Arts, MCBA) is an art museum in

Lausanne , neighboring_municipalities= Bottens, Bretigny-sur-Morrens, Chavannes-près-Renens, Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Crissier, Cugy, Écublens, Épalinges, Évian-les-Bains (FR-74), Froideville, Jouxtens-Mézery, Le Mont-sur-Lausanne, Lugrin (FR-74), ...

Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

Collection

The museum was created by private initiative in 1841, with funds provided by the artist Marc-Louis Arlaud, who became its first curator. Private funds still help the acquisition process with gifts and legacies. In 2014, the museum conserved around 10,000 artworks. A part of them retrace a general history of art, beginning with ancient Egypt, but the largest part focuses on art from the end of the eighteenth century to

post-impressionism Post-Impressionism (also spelled Postimpressionism) was a predominantly French art movement that developed roughly between 1886 and 1905, from the last Impressionist exhibition to the birth of Fauvism. Post-Impressionism emerged as a reaction ag ...

. The reputation of the museum is due to five great collections : those of

Abraham-Louis-Rodolphe Ducros Abraham-Louis-Rodolphe Ducros (21 July 1748 – 18 February 1810) was a Swiss painter, watercolourist and engraver, and was a main figure in the 'pre-romantic' movement. Biography Abraham-Louis-Rodolphe was the son of a drawing master at Yverd ...

(1748-1810), Charles Gleyre (1806-1874), Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen (1859–1923),

Félix Vallotton Félix Édouard Vallotton (; December 28, 1865December 29, 1925) was a Swiss and French painter and printmaker associated with the group of artists known as . He was an important figure in the development of the modern woodcut. He painted portra ...

(1865–1925) and

Louis Soutter Louis Adolphe Soutter (4 June 1871 – 20 February 1942) was a Swiss painter and graphic artist in the Outsider art, Art Brut style, who produced most of his work while under care in a hospice. He also worked as a musician, playing the violin. B ...

(1871–1942). Modern and contemporary art collections includes works by

Marcel Broodthaers Marcel Broodthaers (28 January 1924 – 28 January 1976) was a Belgian poet, filmmaker, and visual artist with a highly literate and often witty approach to creating art works. In 1943-1951 he was a member of a Communist party. Life and career ...

Rolf Iseli Rolf Iseli (born January 22, 1934, in Bern) is a Swiss painter, one of the most important representatives of the artistic avant-garde in Switzerland in the second half of 20th century. Among others, his prints were on display in Museum of Modern ...

, Tadeusz Kantor, Charles Rollier, Daniel Spoerri or Maria Elena Vieira da Silva. Expressive figuration is extensively represented by

Günter Brus Günter Brus (born 27 September 1938, Ardning, Styria, Austria) is an Austrian painter, performance artist, graphic artist, experimental filmmaker and writer. Brus grew up in Mureck, attended the Kunstgewerbeschule Graz and went to Vienna in 195 ...

, Luciano Castelli, Miriam Cahn,

Martin Disler Martin Disler (1 March 1949, Seewen – 27 August 1996, Geneva) was a Swiss painter, draughtsman and writer. He is associated with the ''Neue Wilde'' painting style. Born to a family of gardeners, he was expelled from school in 1968 for disciplina ...

Leiko Ikemura is a Japanese-Swiss painter and sculptor. Biography Leiko Ikemura studied at Osaka University from 1970–1972. She then left Japan to study in Spain from 1973 to 1978 at the Academia de Bellas Artes in Granada and Seville. In 1979, Ikemura ...

Arnulf Rainer Arnulf Rainer (born 8 December 1929) is an Austrian painter noted for his abstract informal art. Rainer was born in Baden, Austria. During his early years, Rainer was influenced by Surrealism. In 1950, he founded the ''Hundsgruppe'' (''dog gro ...

, Klaudia Schifferle, and , among others. In the years 1990–2010, the museum focused on the acquisition of majors works by international artists such as Christian Boltanski,

Tom Burr Tom Burr (born 1963) is an American conceptual artist. Burr's artwork explores the relationships between, "the built environment, subjectivity, and historical persona". He is based in New York City. Life Burr was born in 1963 in New Haven, Co ...

Sophie Calle Sophie Calle (born 9 October 1953) is a French writer, photographer, installation artist, and conceptual artist. Calle's work is distinguished by its use of arbitrary sets of constraints, and evokes the French literary movement known as Oulipo. ...

Alfredo Jaar Alfredo Jaar (; ; born 1956) is a Chilean-born artist, architect, photographer and filmmaker who lives in New York City. He is mostly known as an installation artist, often incorporating photography and covering socio-political issues and war—t ...

, Nalini Malani, Bruce Nauman and Jim Shaw, as well as representing local artists such as ,

Edmond Jean de Pury Baron Edmond Jean de Pury (6 March 1845 – 7 November 1911) was a Swiss painter and engraver. Biography De Pury was born on 6 March 1845 in Neuchâtel. He was a member of a Prussian noble family and was a nephew of James-Ferdinand de Pury. H ...

, Alain Huck, Silvie Defraoui, , and . In October 2019, the museum relocated to the new '' Plateforme 10'' facility. This expanded facility allows the museum to further dedicate rooms for its permanent collection.

Gallery

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Marius Borgeaud Marius Borgeaud (21 September 1861 – 16 July 1924) was a Swiss Post-Impressionist painter. He was born in Lausanne. Early life Borgeaud came from a bourgeois milieu; he attended the Industrial School of Lausanne and did not intend to pursue pa ...

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François Bocion François-Louis David Bocion (30 March 1828, Lausanne - 12 December 1890, Lausanne) was a Swiss painter, designer and art professor, known primarily for his landscapes of the area around Lake Geneva. Biography He was the youngest of five child ...

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(1900)

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{{Authority control Museums in Lausanne Art museums and galleries in Switzerland Museums established in 1841 1841 establishments in Switzerland

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