Over the centuries, works of art travel from hand to hand, taking on the marks of time. Sometimes their existence is extended in a permanent place: a museum. Since 1897, thousands of works have converged on the Jenisch Museum Vevey, which today preserves a rich heritage of 53,000 paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures, from the Renaissance to the present day.
The exhibition « Where I come from » focuses on the Vevey collections and their origins. It invites the public to enter into a dialogue with some sixty emblematic works by Courbet, Dürer, Dix, Giacometti, Hodler, Ingres and Picasso, by observing them from a different angle. Where does this heritage for future generations come from? What paths did it take? There are so many paths and so many stories to be discovered on a tour of the institution’s permanent galleries.
