Stage design drawings (2022-2025)

The SAPA Foundation owns a comprehensive collection of around 7000 stage design drawings. The so-called designs by artists in the fields of stage, costumes and visual arts not only served as models for realized and unrealized stage productions, they also illustrate theoretical and conceptual reflections on stage practice. The collection focuses on the period from 1895 to the 1970s and is still growing today. The most famous representatives are Adolphe Appia, Roman Clemens, Caspar Neher, Max Sulzbachner and Karl Walser, with the most recent additions being the holdings of Jean-Claude Maret and Annelies Corrodi.

The collection has so far been incompletely recorded and the storage no longer meets today's conservation requirements. SAPA is currently taking an inventory of all the works with the aim of making the holdings attractive and visible to the general public, interlibrary loans and research in a comprehensive digitization, conservation and dissemination project.

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We would like to thank the following foundations for their generous support:

Burgergemeinde Bern, Ernst Göhner Stiftung, Kulturstiftung der Gebäudeversicherung Bern (GVB), Stiftung Pro Scientia et Arte, Ruth & Arthur Scherbarth Stiftung, Claire Sturzenegger-Jeanfavre Stiftung