Rudolf Münger

Rudolf Münger (10 November 1862 – 17 September 1929) was a Swiss painter, stained-glass artist, illustrator and heraldist associated mainly with Historicism. His major work was the late-19th-century fresco decoration of the Kornhauskeller in Bern.

Biography Rudolf Münger was born in Bern on 10 November 1862.

Between 1883 and 1888, Münger continued his training in Munich, studying at the Kunstgewerbeschule and the Akademie der Künste. He then studied at the Académie Julian in Paris, but left in 1889 after becoming seriously ill. After returning to Bern, he taught decorative painting at the Handwerkerschule until 1898. He married Marie Zimmermann in 1890. It brought together historical, heraldic and Bernese folk imagery with decorative and textual elements.

His surviving works include frescoes in the Kornhauskeller in Bern, 24 panels for the Zunfthaus at Amthausgasse 46 in Bern and works in Kunstmuseum Bern.

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