Edouard Vuillard. In the Louvre: Paintings for a Basel Villa

Hardback

Main Details

Title Edouard Vuillard. In the Louvre: Paintings for a Basel Villa
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Basler Versicherung AG
Edited by Martin Schwandner
Contributions by M. Chivot
Contributions by L. Gloor
Contributions by D. Huber
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:160
Dimensions(mm): Height 285,Width 215
Category/GenreArt and design styles - c 1800 to c 1900
Art and design styles - c 1900 to c 1960
Painting and paintings
Individual artists and art monographs
ISBN/Barcode 9783777437590
ClassificationsDewey:759.4
Audience
General
Illustrations Illustrated in colour throughout

Publishing Details

Publisher Hirmer Verlag
Imprint Hirmer Verlag
Publication Date 27 January 2022
Publication Country Germany

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.

Author Biography

Martin Schwander is a curator at the Baloise Art Collection in Basel.