Villa Langmatt in Baden may well be considered one of the gems among Swiss private collections open to the public. In 1908, Sidney and Jenny Brown began to assemble the first Impressionist collection in Switzerland, which is still exhibited in the original home setting of this entrepreneurial couple. Starting with Camille Corot and Eugene Boudin, the collection includes works by Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, and Alfred Sisley as well as Paul Cezanne and Paul Gauguin. There are also paintings by Gustave Courbet, Henri FantinLatour, Odilon Redon, and Mary Cassatt, and the collection is rounded off by a few eighteenth-century canvases.

This catalogue presents the complete collection of paintings and a selection of decorative arts such as furniture, silver, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century porcelain, and Asiatica, all reviewed by a team of renowned art historians. Essays on the history of the collection, the architecture of the villa, designed by the leading Swiss architect Karl Moser, and the gardens, laid out by Otto Froebel, compliment the presentation of this culturally and art-historically fascinating ensemble.

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Josef Burge

The Collectors Sidney and Jenny Brown

Eva-Maria Preiswerk-Losel

The Origin of the Collections

Eva-Maria Preiswerk-Losel

Karl Moser, Villa Langmatt, and the Dream of Country Life

Stanislaus von Moos

The Interior Design of Villa Langmatt

Eva-Maria Preiswerk-Losel

The Gardens of Villa Langmatt

Peter Paul Stockli

The Paintings: An Annotated Selection

The Decorative Arts: An Annotated Selection

Catalogue of the Paintings

Authors

Publications of the Langmatt Museum

Illustration Credits