It All Began with a Klee Drawing

Dr h.c. Angela Rosengart, born in Lucerne in 1932, joins her father’s gallery in 1948 as an ‘apprentice’, which is simultaneously her start as a collector with her first acquisition of a work, Little X by Paul Klee. In 1949, a first encounter with Picasso in Paris, numerous contacts with Chagall, Matisse, Braque, Miró, and Marino Marini, among others. In 1957, becomes a partner in the Galerie Rosengart. In 1978, she and her father donate works by Picasso to the City of Lucerne; they are awarded the ‘Ehrennadel’ (badge of honour) of the City of Lucerne in 1981. In 1985, death of her father Siegfried Rosengart. In 1992, the establishment of the Rosengart Foundation; in 2000, acquisition of the erstwhile branch building of the Swiss National Bank in Lucerne for the Rosengart Foundation; in 2002, opening of the Museum Rosengart Collection. Is awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Zurich in 2003. Lives in Lucerne.

Dr phil. Martina Kral, born in Ulm, Germany, in 1963. Study of art history, musicology, and ethnology at the University of Freiburg/Breisgau and the University of Kiel. From 1992 to 1999, employee in the arts section of the Kieler Nachrichten newspaper, and from 2000 to 2001 volunteer at the Ulmer Museum. 2002 to 2019 curator of the Rosengart Collection in Lucerne, and starting in 2003 project manager of ‘Kinder führen Kinder’ (Children guiding Children); since 2006, lecturer at the University of the Third Age in Lucerne; now working as a lecturer, author, and art mediator. Lives in Lenzerheide.