Jan van Kessel: Bleiche bei Haarlem, around 1670
Kunstmuseum Basel (Photo: Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel/Martin P. Bühler)
Portrait of the family of the Basel Guild Master Faesch, 1559: Hans Hug Kluber
Kunstmuseum Basel (Photo: Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel/Martin P. Bühler)
Works of Hans Hug Kluber and Katharina Fritsch
(Photo: Tom Bisig, Basel)
Basler Meister's Portrait of Hieronymus Tschekkenbürlin with Death, 1487
Kunstmuseum Basel, Depositum (Photo: Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel/Martin P. Bühler)
Peter Fischli/David Weiss: Table 1992-1993 (Detail, cut out of polyurethane and painted)
Emanuel Hoffmann-Stiftung, Depositum in der Öffentlichen Kunstsammlung Basel (Photo: Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, Martin P. Bühler)
Arnold Böcklin, Island of Dead (first version), 1880
Kunstmuseum Basel, Depositum der Gottfried Keller-Stiftung 1920 (Photo: Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, Martin P. Bühler)
Ferdinand Hodler, Das mutige Weib, 1886
Kunstmuseum Basel (Photo: Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel/Martin P. Bühler)
Schaulager in Basel plays host to major art works from the city's collection.
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It’s not every day that art works can go on a summer holiday. The van Gogh exhibition at the Kunstmuseum meant some of the city’s collection had to leave home for a while. They’ve found a welcome at the Schaulager museum where the works are seen in a different light.
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The Schaulager, a mixture of public museum, art storage facility and research institute, has been playing host to more than 200 Very Important Paintings that had to make way for the van Gogh exhibition at the Kunstmuseum. Part of the problem for the Kunstmuseum was the threat that the works in the Basel collection and…
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Landscapes were a way for the Dutch artist to express himself. They also show another side to the painter, one that rejoiced in and celebrated nature. “The display has works that will probably never ever be assembled again in an exhibition,” exhibition curator Nina Zimmer told swissinfo. “We were able to get loans from all…
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Basel’s Kunstmuseum is hosting for the first time worldwide an exhibition of landscapes by the legendary artist Vincent van Gogh. The 70 paintings – both famous and rare works – should give a new insight into the Dutch artist’s oeuvre. It runs until September 27.
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