Museo Comunale d'Arte Moderna Ascona

Art collection including works by artists related to the village of Ascona, such as: Ernst Frick, Otto Niemeyer-Holstein, Werner Müller, Walter Helbig, Paul Klee, Marcel Janko, Ben Nicholson, Hans Arp, Hans Richter, Julius Bissier, Italo Valenti, Arthur Segal, Jakob Flach, Hermann Hesse, Otto van Rees, César Domela, Albert Kohler, Gordon McCouch, Fritz Pauli, Mario Merz, Niele Toroni, Paul Klee, Cuno Amiet and Alexej Jawlensky. The museum also houses: the Marianne Werefkin Foundation, with 90 paintings and 170 sketchbooks, 500 sketches and the collection of documents; the collection of the artist and architect Carl Weidemeyer; the collection of the dancer Charlotte Bara; the collection of the physician and artist Anna Iduna Zehnder; and last but not least, the Richard and Uli Seewald Foundation.

This museum greets you in the following languages: D/F/I
Opening 1967

Current exhibitions

Alexej Jawlensky and Marianne Werefkin - Soulmates

20.09.2020 - 10.01.2021

With more than 100 works, witnessing 30 years of common life, the exhibition compares the two Russian artists, highlighting the different phases of their work. It begins with their still realistic paintings in Russia, continues on to those of their expressionist maturity in Munich, and concludes with their late years of exile in Switzerland that testify to Jawlensky’s abstract approach, which he deepens in Wiesbaden, and Werefkin’s increasingly visionary, intense and anecdotal one in Ascona.

The exhibition is documented in the following languages: D/I
Guided tours are offered in the following languages: D/F/I