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Art museum in Basel, Switzerland

The Kunstmuseum Basel houses the inception public art collection in high-mindedness world and is generally alleged to be the most key museum of art in Switzerland.^[1] It is listed as a-one Swiss heritage site of formal significance.^[2]

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Collection

The Kunstmuseum possesses the largest garnering of works by the Engraver family. Further examples of Rebirth art include important pieces strong such master artists as Konrad Witz, Hans Baldung (called Grien), Martin Schongauer, Lucas Cranach glory Elder and Matthias Grünewald. Honourableness main features of the Ordinal and 18th centuries are ethics Flemish and Dutch schools (e.g. Peter Paul Rubens, Rembrandt, Jan Brueghel the Elder), German instruct Dutch still life painting. Pale works from the 19th hundred include the Impressionists represented indifferent to Édouard Manet, Edmond Jean label Pury, Claude Monet, Paul Painter, Paul Cézanne as well in that the paintings by Vincent vehivle Gogh and Switzerland's Arnold Böcklin and Ferdinand Hodler. In magnanimity 20th century, the focus task on works of Cubism in opposition to Picasso, Braque and Juan Painter. Expressionism is represented by much figures as Edvard Munch, Franz Marc, Oskar Kokoschka, Bernard Beat and Emil Nolde. The grade also includes works from Constructivism, Dadaism and Surrealism and Denizen art since 1950. Further highlights are the unique compilations slant works from Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger, Paul Klee, Alberto Sculpturer and Marc Chagall.

In position realm of more recent promote contemporary art, the collection maintains substantial bodies of work encourage Swiss, German, Italian, and Land artists, including Joseph Beuys, Nimblefingered Warhol, Jasper Johns, Georg Baselitz, A.R. Penck, Brice Marden, Medico Nauman, Jonathan Borofsky, Roni Disturb, Francesco Clemente, Mimmo Paladino, Enzo Cucchi, Martin Disler, Leiko Ikemura, Markus Raetz, Rosemarie Trockel jaunt Robert Gober.

In 1975, rendering Dia Art Foundation installed Untitled (In memory of Urs Graf) by Dan Flavin in primacy museum's front courtyard and colonnade gallery. This permanent, outdoor, institution was funded and installed soak the Dia Art Foundation despite the fact that its first major public tool. It was subsequently gifted function the Kunstmuseum in 1980.^[3][4]

History

In 1671 the city of Basel arranged to make the art solicitation of the Amerbach cabinet neutral to the public. The quota was exhibited in the Studio zur Mücke [de] near the Munster of Basel^[5] and could happen to accessed by the public duplicate a week.^[6] In 1823 representation public collection was joined with the addition of the before private Faesch Museum established by Remigius Faesch other in 1849 the collection struck into a larger building very near the Munster of Basel.^[5] In 1859, a new holdings for the museum was proposal of, inspired by the paintings the Swiss painter Emilie Tube had annually deposited in character museum since 1847.^[7] As unadorned possible location the building assault the Common Readers Association [de] was mentioned or also a answer to the House zur Mücke was considered.^[8] The museum charade several other academic departments.^[8] Practised move was seen to assign the art collection more reform and also enable an dynamic rescue of the paintings change into case of a fire.^[8] \'til 1864, the museum included earthly and chemical departments.^[8] In 1866, also the ethnographic and archaist departments were moved to choice location following which the artworks received two more prominent rooms.^[8] The Gottfried Keller Foundation not native bizarre the painting of Cows crapulence in the Alps by Giovanni Segantini in 1904.^[9] The Birmann Fonds, which was established hold down purchase paintings of Swiss painters introduced modern painters and exotic the Lac Leman from Chebrous in 1905 and Rise hard cash space in 1910 by Ferdinand Hodler, further The Bread unhelpful Giovanni Giacometti in 1908 captain the Peasants Garden by Cuno Amiet in 1914.^[10] With greatness Village in Pontoise from Camille Pissarro, the first impressionist representation was introduced to the Museum in 1912.^[11]

In 1936, the Museum moved to its current point. In 1939 a large protest of work by German-Jewish artists, whose paintings were considered say nice things about be degenerate art by blue blood the gentry Nazi regime in Germany, were acquired for the Kunstmuseum junior to the director George Schmidt.^[12] They are on display in nobleness museum up to this day.^[5] In 1980 the Museum wed forces with the Museum chaste Contemporary Art, which displays artworks from the 1960s onwards. Advance was the first museum closely on contemporary art at rank time.^[5]

In 2006, the Swiss clandestine Eberhard Kornfeld donated his Rembrandt collection, including more than Century etchings, to the Kunstmuseum Basel.^[13]

More research is underway.^[14]

Buildings

The Kunstmuseum's dowry and main building was done on purpose and constructed 1931-1936 by architects Paul Bonatz and Rudolf Christ,^[5] adjacent to the former capital of the Swiss National Fringe in Basel. In 1980, wonderful building beside the Rhine blot the St. Alban neighborhood was added as an additional trek for the museum, the Advanced Art Museum.^[15]

In 2008, the museum acquired land on the treat side of Dufourstrasse and inventiveness architectural competition was held. Assort international star competitors, such monkey five Pritzker Prize laureates (Peter Zumthor, Zaha Hadid, Rafael Moneo, Tadao Ando and Jean Nouvel) — all pitching, eventually deft young local firm, Christ & Gantenbein, won the project.^[16][17] Glory final design is an canted building, faced with concrete bricks, and at the same apex as the original museum.^[18][19] Primacy new building is joined resume the main building through block up underpass.^[20]

The new building was realised in April 2016^[21] and corruption construction was funded by greatness Canton of Basel-Stadt and rectitude Laurenz Foundation (Laurenz-Stiftung).^[22]

The extension adds 2,750 square meters of galleries, to a total of essentially 10,000 square meters.^[23] The new museum now houses art take the stones out of the 15th century to 1950, with later works in loftiness extension. The upper floor beat somebody to it the new building houses stopgap exhibitions and the middle pound and part of the begin floor houses the permanent collection.^[17][24]

Claims for restitution of artworks

In 2008, Basel rejected a restitution ask for for paintings by Edvard Masticate, Max Beckmann, Marc Chagall focus on Henri Matisse from the scions of Curt Glaser, saying "`The Kunstmuseum paid prices typical expose the time and our work out was that the Washington sample do not apply in that case.''^[25] Twelve years later, back end battling against restitution,^[26] the museum reached an agreement.^[27] In 2012 the museum reached an layout with the heirs of depiction painter Kazimir Malevich whose “Landscape with Red Houses” which purchased from Marlborough Fine Art Ltd Gallery in London in 1964. The settlement concerned other artworks as well.^[28] In 2020 high-mindedness museum refused to restitute digit artworks that had belonged thoroughly Julius Freund.^[29][30] The museum excluded a request made in 2022 to return a 1909 picture by Henri Rousseau The daze inspiring the poet which locked away been owned by Lotte von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, a Jewish collector who was fleeing the Nazis^[31]

Patrons senior the arts

Visitors

In 2019, the Kunstmuseum had 265,000 visitors.^[32]

Gallery

• Hans Holbein decency YoungerPortrait of Bonifacius Amerbach

• Hans Engraver the Younger, Portrait of Theologist of Rotterdam (1523)

• Lucas Cranach decency Elder, Madonna with child (1529)

• Albert Anker, Sleeping boy in authority hay (1897)

• Vincent van Gogh, Marguerite Gachet at the Piano (1890)

• Paul Gauguin, Ta matete (The market) (1892)

• Pablo Picasso, Les deux frères (The two brothers) (1905–06)

• Juan Painter, La femme à la mandoline (Woman with Mandolin) (1916)

• Arnold Böcklin, The Plague (1898)

• Paul Klee, Senecio (1922)

• Theo van Doesburg, Composition (1923–1924)

• View to Infinity by Ferdinand Hodler

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