Description
In 1921/22 Edouard 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 overdoors provide an intimate insight into the artist's art collection.
The cycle of paintings is of outstanding quality as regards both content and form, but it to date has seldom been examined and exhibited. It was created immediately after the end of the First World War and the re-opening of the Louvre. Vuillard's Louvre pictures are a humanist manifesto for the social importance and responsibility of museums as places that preserve the evidence of human creativity for future generations.
Edouard Vuillard's fascinating views of the Louvre for a villa in Basel
About the Author
Martin Schwander is a curator at the Baloise Art Collection in Basel.
Book Information
ISBN 9783777437590
Author Basler Versicherung AG
Format Hardback
Page Count 160
Imprint Hirmer Verlag
Publisher Hirmer Verlag
Weight(grams) 980g
The cycle of paintings is of outstanding quality as regards both content and form, but it to date has seldom been examined and exhibited. It was created immediately after the end of the First World War and the re-opening of the Louvre. Vuillard's Louvre pictures are a humanist manifesto for the social importance and responsibility of museums as places that preserve the evidence of human creativity for future generations.
Edouard Vuillard's fascinating views of the Louvre for a villa in Basel
About the Author
Martin Schwander is a curator at the Baloise Art Collection in Basel.
Book Information
ISBN 9783777437590
Author Basler Versicherung AG
Format Hardback
Page Count 160
Imprint Hirmer Verlag
Publisher Hirmer Verlag
Weight(grams) 980g
