Interaction: The Story Behind the Exhibition
Surrealism often features unexpected combinations, like a sewing machine and an umbrella on a dissecting table. André Breton highlighted this in the First Surrealist Manifesto in 1924.
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Mon - Sun: 09:00 - 18:00
Last entry 45 min before closingPublic Transit Accessible
approx. 1.5 - 2 hours
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Ready for an art attack? The Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection comprises works from the Dieter Scharf Collection in Memory of Otto Gerstenberg. Explore a fascinating world of Surrealism, including the work of artists who foreshadowed the movement, and peruse over 250 years of art history. See works by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Francisco de Goya, and Victor Hugo, plus that of key figures of Symbolism, such as Odilon Redon, Max Klinger, Alfred Kubin, Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, and René Magritte and Jean Dubuffet.
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