The story
Oskar Reinhart came from one of the world's big trading houses, based in the Swiss town of Winterthur, and he spent much of his life turning the family money into one of the most discerning private art collections in Europe. In 1924 he bought a hillside villa called Am Römerholz, added a gallery wing the following year, and hung old masters beside the French moderns he loved so that each set the other off.
You still see them that way today. A single room might place a Goya or a Cranach a few steps from a Cézanne, a Renoir, a late Manet, or one of the van Goghs he bought early. Reinhart left the house and everything in it to the Swiss confederation, and it opened to the public in 1970, kept close to the way he had arranged it while he lived there.
Collection
21 works
Adoration of the Magi in a Winter LandscapePieter Brueghel the Elder, 1563
Portrait of Delphine RamelJean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1859
Portrait of Augustine RoulinVincent van Gogh, 1888
Man with Delusions of Military CommandThéodore Géricault, 1822
Portrait of José Pío de MolinaFrancisco Goya, 1827
Sleeping womanPierre-Auguste Renoir, 1897
The Courtyard of the Hospital at ArlesVincent van Gogh, 1889
The Death of OpheliaEugène Delacroix, 1844
The HammockGustave Courbet, 1844
A Corner of L'Hermitage, PontoiseCamille Pissarro, 1874
At the CaféÉdouard Manet, 1878
Barges on the Canal Saint-MartinAlfred Sisley, 1870
Blue roofs of RouenPaul Gauguin, 1884
Dormitory in the Hospital in ArlesVincent van Gogh, 1889
Lily and Greenhouse PlantsPierre-Auguste Renoir, 1864
Portrait of Gustave MathieuGustave Courbet, 1869
Portrait of Victor ChocquetPierre-Auguste Renoir, 1876
Quarry menGustave Courbet, 1849
Still life with fruit, bottles, breadsFrancisco Goya, 1824
Still Life with Three Salmon SlicesFrancisco Goya, 1808
The clownesse Cha-U-Kao at the Moulin RougeHenri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1895