Exhibition

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Next exhibition will be opened on April 18.

Karl Walser

Saturday, April 18 - Sunday, June 21, 2026

*Tickets can be purchased from HERE

This is the first retrospective in Japan of Karl Walser (1877–1943), a Swiss-born unique artist who was active in the first half of the twentieth century. Born in Biel, a town in the suburbs of Bern, Walser, in his twenties, went to Berlin, where he joined the Berlin Secession and produced many symbolistic pictures. He came to Japan together with the German novelist Bernhard Kellermann in 1908, and stayed in Tokyo, Miyazu (Kyoto-fu), etc., where he fervently depicted Japanese landscapes and genre scenes. This exhibition is an epoch-making attempt to convey a full view of Walser, who was also active as an illustrator and a stage designer, and all exhibits are on show in Japan for the first time.