Admissions : Adults CHF : 10.-
Students aged 25 and under : CHF 5.-
Children aged 12 and under : free
The Kunstmuseum Basel : Description
The Kunstmuseum houses the Gemäldegalerie (Painting Collection) and the Kupferstichkabinett (Department of Prints and Drawings). The main focus is on paintings and drawings by artists active in the Upper Rhine region between 1400 and 1600 and on the art of the 19th to 21st centuries.
The Kunstmuseum possesses the world's largest collection of works by the Holbein family. Further examples of Renaissance art include major pieces by such masters as Konrad Witz, Martin Schongauer, Lucas Cranach the Elder and Mathias Grünewald. Most of these early treasures originally belonged to the collection of a Basel lawyer, Basilius Amerbach. Purchased by the city in 1661, they formed the core of the world's first public municipal museum.
Paintings by Basel-born Arnold Böcklin feature among the 19th-century highlights. In the field of 20th-century art, the accent is on Cubism (Picasso, Braque, Léger), German Expressionism, Abstract Expressionism and American art since 1950. Contemporary art is exhibited at the Museum für Gegenwartskunst (Museum of Contemporary Art).
The Kunstmuseum Basel : History
The Kunstmuseum houses the Gemäldegalerie (Painting Collection) and the Kupferstichkabinett (Department of Prints and Drawings).
The inventory of the Gemäldegalerie includes paintings, sculptures, installations, videos and photographs.
The inventory of the Kupferstichkabinett features drawings, watercolours and engravings.
The collection of the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung has been enriched by important gifts and is complemented by numerous works deposited with the museum, thanks in part to long-standing partnerships with the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation, and such institutions as the Im Obersteg Foundation, the Rudolf Staechelin Collection, the Dr. h.c. Emile Dreyfus Foundation, the Alberto Giacometti Foundation and the Gottfried Keller Foundation.
