Édouard Vuillard’s fascinating views of the Louvre for a villa in Basel
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Édouard Vuillard
Im Louvre - Bilder für eine Basler Villa / In the Louvre – Paintings for a Basel Villa
In 1921/22 Édouard Vuillard created a cycle of six paintings for the entrance hall of the Villa Bauer in Basel. Four large-format pictures show exhibition rooms in the Louvre from Antiquity to French Rococo painting. Two sopraporte provide an intimate insight into the artist’s art collection.
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Of outstanding quality with regard to its content and form, the cycle of paintings has hardly been examined or exhibited to date. It was created immediately after the end of World War I and the reopening of the Louvre. Vuillard’s Louvre pictures are a humanist manifesto for the social importance and responsibility of museums as places where testimonies to human creativity are preserved for future generations.
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Ed. Martin Schwander
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Contributions by Mathias Chivot, Lukas Gloor, Dorothee Huber, Martin Schwander, Bodo Vischer
Text: English / German200 pages, 60 colour illustrations
21,5 x 28,5 cm, softcover with dust jacket
ISBN: 978-3-7774-3759-0
Events
Basel
| Kunstforum Baloise
Categories
Art 20th Century
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Painting 19th Century
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Painting
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Painting 20th Century
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Impressionism
Keywords
Painting, 20th century, intimism, nabis, postimpressionism
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