Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft

LC control no.	n 50076362
Descriptive conventions	rda
Corporate name heading	Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Zuricher Kunstgesellschaft
Beginning date	1896
Located	Zurich (Switzerland)
Found in	Joan Miró, 2015: colophon (edited by Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft) Wikipedia, April 15, 2016 (Kunsthaus Zürich; The Kunsthaus Zürich is an art gallery in the Swiss city of Zürich; it houses one of the most important art collections in Switzerland, assembled over the years by the local art association called Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft; the collection spans from the Middle Ages to contemporary art, with an emphasis on Swiss art) Kunsthaus Zürich, via WWW, April 15, 2016 ((History of the Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft and the Kunsthaus collection; founded in 1787, the Künstlergesellschaft began to collect works of art in 1794; every member donated either one of his or her own drawings or one by an artist; in 1812 they took out a loan to acquire premises, which initially functioned as a club house and bar; in order to attract a broader public the Kunstlergesellschaft founded the Zürcher Kunstverein in 1853, thereby generating a modest but regular inflow of funds which was used above all for local and Swiss art; in 1895 the association of the Kunstlerhaus Zürich was founded and opened a salon for temporary exhibitions; in the following year the Zürcher Kunstverein and the Kunstlerhaus Zürich amalgamated to form the Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft and intensified their efforts to build a real museum)