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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