Art takes a holiday
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Rodney Graham: Allegory of Folly: Study for an Equestrian Monument in the Form of a Wind Vane, 2005 (Photo: Tom Bisig, Basel) -
Hans Holbein the Younger, Erasmus of Rotterdam, about 1530 Kunstmuseum Basel (Photo: Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel/Martin P. Bühler) -
The wall that allows your imagination to run free (Photo: Tom Bisig, Basel) -
Cy Twombly: Nini's Painting, 1971 Kunstmuseum Basel (Photo: Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel/Martin P. Bühler) -
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) -
Donald Judd: Stacks, 1970 Kunstmuseum Basel (Photo: Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel/Martin P. Bühler, © 2009 Pro Litteris, Zürich) -
Franz Marc: The Fate of the Animals, 1913 Kunstmuseum Basel (Photo: Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, Martin P. Bühler) -
Edgar Degas: Wounded jockey, 1896-98 Kunstmuseum Basel (Photo: Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, Martin P. Bühler) -
Jeff Wall, Citizen, 1996 Kunstmuseum Basel (Photo: Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, Martin P. Bühler/© Jeff Wall) -
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) -
Frank Stella: Damascus Gate. Variation I. 1969-70 Kunstmuseum Basel (Photo: Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, Martin P. Bühler/© 2009 Pro Litteris, Zürich) -
Bruce Nauman: Storage Capsule for the Right Rear Quarter of My Body, 1966 Kunstmuseum Basel (Photo: Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, Martin P. Bühler/© 2009 Pro Litteris, Zürich) -
Still life: Sebastian Stoskopff Oil on canvas, 54.5 x 73 cm, Kunstmuseum Basel(Photo: Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, Martin P. Bühler) -
Sam Francis, Deep Orange and Black, 1954/1955 Kunstmuseum Basel (Photo: Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, Martin P. Bühler/© 2009 Pro Litteris, Zürich) -
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) -
Wolfgang Tillmans, Anders pulling splinter from his foot, 2004 Kunstmuseum Basel (© beim Künstler)
Schaulager in Basel plays host to major art works from the city's collection.
This content was published on August 24, 2009 - 17:03
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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