The museum (Kunstmuseum Basel) houses the Gallery and the Department of Prints and Drawings. The main focus is on paintings and drawings by artists active from the Upper Rhine region between 1400 and 1600 and of the 19th and 21st centuries.
The museum has the world’s most extensive collection of works by the Holbein family. Other examples of Renaissance art include famous pieces by masters such as Konrad Witz, Martin Schongauer, Lucas Cranach the Elder and Matthias Grünewald.
In 20th-century art, the accent has been on Cubism (Picasso, Braque, Léger), German Expressionism, Abstract Expressionism, and American art since 1950.
The museum complex consists of the new building (Neubau) and the old building. The nearby and associated Museum of Contemporary Art (Museum für Gegenwartskunst) organises exhibitions on present-day art.
Impressions of the Museum
City: Basel
Country: Switzerland
Address: St. Alban-Graben 16
Website: https://kunstmuseumbasel.ch/