Architecture

The Villa Langmatt on Römerstrasse in Baden was opened to the public as a museum of impressionist art and interiors in 1990 thanks to the bequest of John A. Brown, the last descendant of Sidney and Jenny Brown-Sulzer, who died in 1987.

Built in 1900/01 by Karl Moser from Karlsruhe in Germany, who worked at the Curiel & Moser architectural office, the Villa Langmatt houses a gallery of paintings by important French impressionists and their precursors, including Corot, Degas, Monet, Renoir, Pissarro and Sisley as well as Cézanne and Gauguin. The interior, which features French furniture and paintings of the 18^th century, vividly illustrates the lifestyle of a cultivated family of industrialists in the first half of the 20^th century.