Virtual Showcases

2025 erhielt SIK-ISEA eine Sammlung von Dokumenten zu Lissy Funk (1909–2005) aus dem Nachlass von Kurt Maibach geschenkt. Sie umfasst Ausstellungskarten, Werkabbildungen und insbesondere die Korrespondenz der Künstlerin mit Kurt Maibach. Zusammen mit den vom Kunstarchiv gesammelten Materialien im Dokumentations-Dossier ergibt sich ein reicher Einblick in das Leben und Schaffen von Lissy Funk.

In the mid-1980s, the architect, painter, sculptor and teacher Hans Fischli (1909–1989) presented SIK-ISEA with the documents arising from his multi-facetted work. There are architect’s drawings, records of work, photographs and correspondence.

A collection of documents from the estate of Annemie Fontana (1925–2002) was gifted to the Swiss Art Archives at SIK-ISEA in 2015. More than 70 sketchbooks grant profound insights into how the artist worked. The fonds also contains correspondence with personal friends and institutions, a number of photographs and invitations, press reports and publications.

For over 40 years, Peter Friedli (1925–2012), a doctor and photographer in Bern, used his camera to record cultural and political life in Switzerland. In 2005 Friedli gave SIK-ISEA more than a thousand photography portraits of arzists, curators and gallery owners.