Margrit Rupf’s dressing table serves as a base for the collector’s bust, a serving boy supports Jean Arp’s sculpture, the drawers of a chest hold Ewald Mataré’s Liegende Kuh (Lying Cow, 1925) – all furniture and works of art from Rupf’s terraced house in Bern’s Brückfeld district. In 2010, Florian Slotawa (*1972, D) was commissioned by the Rupf Foundation to explore the Rupf Collection, subsequently developing an installation work that makes the history of the married collectors tangible by incorporating a small selection of works into a contemporary installation.

From 1927, Eugène de Kermadec became part of Kahnweiler’s gallery program; Hermann Rupf acquired his first works by him in 1931.