Museo Casa Console

The structure of the splendid patrician house represents an architectural jewel of the 19th century. It displays important works of Romanticism, including Spitzweg, Koller, Lenbach, Calame, Segantini and others.

SWISS REALISTS, IDEALISTS, SYMBOLISTS. PAINTINGS BY COLLECTOR BRUNO STEFANINI
This temporary exhibition brings together some 20 masterpieces from the collection of Winterthur art collector Bruno Stefanini (1924-2018), now held by the Foundation for Art, Culture and History (SKKG), which he established in 1980. The son of an Italian immigrant and a Swiss citizen, Stefanini built a considerable fortune as a construction and real estate entrepreneur, investing - beginning in the 1970s - a considerable portion of his resources in the creation of one of Switzerland's most important art collections, the result of passion, rigor and a sense of patriotism.

The exhibition, curated by Gian Casper Bott and coordinated by Moreno Raselli, will be accompanied by a rich program of collateral events dedicated to the figure of Bruno Stefanini. These will include the presentation of his diaries, published in 2024, with a talk by Vincenzo Todisco, and the screening of the documentary "Die Hinterlassenschaft des Bruno Stefanini" (The Legacy of Bruno Stefanini, 2025), in the presence of director Thomas Haemmerli, who will share his reflections on the collector.