Kandinsky, Picasso, Miró et al. back in Lucerne

In 1935, in the newly opened Kunstmuseum Luzern, an exhibition of superlatives was shown that included works by Miró, Taeuber-Arp, Picasso, Braque, Giacometti, Calder and others. While at the same time in National Socialist Germany, art by Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee and Piet Mondrian was being defamed as “degenerate”, in 1935 the Kunstmuseum Luzern was showing works by precisely these modernist artists. The works came to the museum fresh from the artists’ studios. Today, they hang in the world’s most important collections.