Basel - Museum of Art Öffentliche Kunstsammlung

The second floor houses an outstanding collection of 19th and 20th C. art, including Impressionists, Expressionists and Surrealists (Gauguin, Van Gogh, Corot, Corinth, Cézanne, Braque, Kokoschka, Picasso, Kandinsky, Léger, Chagall, Paul Klee, Juan Gris, Dali, Max Ernst), together with 20th C. works and special exhibitions.

Items of particular importance include Böcklin's "Island of the Dead" (earliest version, 1880) and works by Ferdinand Hodler (1853-1918).

On the first floor are the old masters, from Konrad Witz to Holbein the Younger (both well presented), and a collection of French and Dutch pictures presented by Professor Bachofen.

Items of particular importance include the Heilspiegel (Mirror of Salvation) Altar by Konrad Witz (d. ca. 1447), portraits by Holbein (16th C.), a "Crucifixion" by Mathias Grünewald (d. 1528), paintings by Niklaus Manuel-Deutsch (d. 1530) and Rembrandt ("David with Goliath's Head", 1627), Böcklin's "Island of the Dead" (earliest version).