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The Kunstmuseum's current and main building was designed and constructed 1931-1936 by architects Paul Bonatz and Rudolf Christ, [ 5 ] adjacent to the former building of the Swiss National Bank in Basel. In 1980, a building beside the Rhine in the St. Alban neighborhood was added as an additional location for the museum, the Contemporary Art Museum.
I spent six days in the Swiss city of Basel, exploring the town's rich art scene. One of the city's highlights is its proximity to France and Germany. One day, I was roaming a French town straight ...
Kunsthalle Basel. Kunsthalle Basel is a contemporary art gallery in Basel, Switzerland. As Switzerland's oldest and still most active institution for contemporary art established in the year of 1872, Kunsthalle Basel forms a vital part of Basel's cultural centre and is located next to the city's theatre and opposite the concert house Stadtcasino.
Isle of the Dead (German: Die Toteninsel) is the best-known painting of Swiss Symbolist artist Arnold Böcklin (1827–1901). Prints were very popular in central Europe in the early 20th century— Vladimir Nabokov observed in his 1936 novel Despair that they could be "found in every Berlin home".
The Basel museums encompass a series of museums in the city of Basel, Switzerland, and the neighboring region. They represent a broad spectrum of collections with a marked concentration in the fine arts and house numerous holdings of international significance. With at least three dozen institutions, not including the local history collections ...
Museum of Contemporary Art in Basel. The Museum of Contemporary Art (‹See Tfd› German: Museum für Gegenwartskunst) in Basel (Switzerland) opened in 1980 as the first public museum in Europe exclusively dedicated to the production and practice of contemporary art from the 1960s to the present. It is a heritage site of national significance.
Konrad Witz. Saint Christopher by Konrad Witz (c. 1435), at the Kunstmuseum, Basel. Konrad Witz (1400/1410 probably in Rottweil, Germany – winter 1445/spring 1446 in Basel, in current day Switzerland) was a painter, active mainly in Basel.
Georg Schmidt was the son of Carl Schmidt (1862–1923), professor of geology at the University of Basel, [2] and his wife Charlotte Hudtwalker, who came from Hamburg. He was a younger brother of the architect Hans Schmidt (1893-1972). [3] Schmidt studied philosophy, history, art history and literary history at the universities of Basel and ...