Synopses & Reviews
This is a unique chance to see works from two remarkable private Swiss collections. It pays tribute to two pioneering supporters of modernism, Rudolf Staechelin (1881and#8211;1946) and Karl Im Obersteg (1883and#8211;1969), industrialists and businessmen, close friends, and enthusiastic champions of impressionist, post-impressionist, and school of Paris artists.
Gauguin to Picasso, Masterworks from Switzerland features over sixty celebrated paintings from their collections, created during the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth century by twenty-two world-famous artists. Masterpieces include Paul Gauguin's Nafea faa ipoipo (When will you Marry?) (1892), the most expensive work of art ever sold,and#160;Vincent van Gogh's Daubigny's Garden (1890), Pablo Picasso's double-sided canvas Femme dans la loge / Buveuse d'absinthe (1901), and Marc Chagall's three monumental Rabbi portraits. There are extraordinary paintings by artists of international statureand#160;including Swiss master Ferdinand Hodler, Russian expressionist painter Alexej Jawlensky, works by Edouard Manet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Cand#233;zanne, Claude Monet, Amedeo Modigliani, Georges Rouault, and Wassily Kandinsky.
The volume also studies how Staechlin and Im Obersteg developed friendships with and influenced the work of artists, and how they came to create two of the most significant collections of modern art in Europe.
Dorothy Kosinski is the director of The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC.
Hans-Joachim Mand#252;ller is an art critic at the German weekly paper Die Zeit and the culture editor at Basler Zeitung
Henriette Mentha is the Curator of the Im Obersteg Collection at the Kunstmuseum Basel.
Renand#233;e Maurer is assistant curator, The Phillips Collection.
Synopsis
Showcases two stunning collections of early twentieth-century art, with works by Picasso, Van Gogh, Cezanne and Gauguin, amongst many others.
About the Author
Dorothy Kosinski is the director of The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
Hans-Joachim Mand#252;ller is an art critic at the German weekly paper Die Zeit and the culture editor at Basler Zeitung, a major Swiss daily newspaper. He lives and works as a freelance publicist in Germany and Italy.
Henriette Mentha is the curator of the Im Obersteg Collection at the Kunstmuseum Basel.
Renand#233;e Maurer is assistant curator, The Phillips Collection.
Table of Contents
FOREWORD by the Swiss Ambassador
PERSONAL FOREWORD by Ruedi Staechelin
THE IM OBERSTEG COLLECTION and#150; IN THE US FOR THE FIRST TIME by Matthias Hagemann and Hans Furer
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS by Dorothy Kosinski
COLLECTIONS AND CULTURAL IDENTITY THE POWER OF COMMUNITY by Dorothy Kosinski
RUDOLF STAECHELIN A COLLECTOR: HIS LIFE AND TIMES by Hans-Joachim Mand#252;ller
THE IM OBERSTEG COLLECTION by Henriette Mentha
THREE APPROACHES TO COLLECTING by Renand#233;e Maurer
PLATES
WORKS IN THE EXHIBITION
PHOTO CREDITS
INDEX
Photo Credits
Index