Félix Vallotton
The largest gathering of the city's most famous painter.
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A Swiss painter and printmaker born in Lausanne (1865) who moved to Paris and became a leading member of the Nabis alongside Bonnard and Vuillard. He is known for his stark black-and-white woodcuts of high contrast, and for cool, tense interior paintings that portray the French bourgeoisie with silent irony. His style is distinctive and easy to recognise, and this museum holds the largest collection of it in the world.
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The Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts (MCBA) is the principal art museum of Lausanne and the canton of Vaud, and in 2019 it moved from its cramped rooms in the Palais de Rumine into a **new building designed for it** in the Plateforme 10 district — a long grey-brick block with a huge arched window, built by the Spanish architects Barozzi and Veiga on the footprint of the old railway sheds. The collection holds some ten thousand works from the eighteenth century to the present, with a strong Swiss heart: **Félix Vallotton** (a son of Lausanne and a leading painter of the Nabis) in the largest collection of his work, Charles Gleyre, and pieces by Cézanne, Degas, Rodin and Giacometti, alongside contemporary Swiss art. The building itself is half the pleasure: high halls under natural overhead light and generous space that lets the work breathe — the opposite of the old palace's crush. With Photo Elysée and mudac in the same district on a combined ticket.
The largest gathering of the city's most famous painter.
Overhead natural light and space that lets work breathe.
Place de la Gare 16, 1003 Lausanne