The continent Morgenthaler

The Morgenthaler family, originating from the Bern region, lives in the early 20th century amidst a vast network of relationships where significant artistic and intellectual movements of the time intersect and influence one another. Personalities such as Cuno Amiet, Paul Klee, Hermann Hesse, Robert Walser, Karl Geiser, Othmar Schoeck, and Wolfgang Pauli are part of their close circle of friends. The continent of Morgenthaler explores the web of relationships in art and science surrounding the painter Ernst, the artist and doll maker Sasha, the poet Hans, the psychiatrist Walter, as well as in the following generation with the architect Niklaus and the psychoanalyst Fritz Morgenthaler. Through numerous artworks, photographs, and documents, the engagement of the Morgenthaler family and their circle of friends in the history of art and ideas in Switzerland is visualized, along with their relationships.