The Museum of Art in Basel contains some of Switzerland's most prized pieces from the old masters to modern art. The first floor contains Swiss, Dutch, and German paintings.
Some attractions within Basel - Museum of Art First Floor Map:
  • (1) Romanesque wall-paintings
  • (2) Konrad Witz
  • (3) School of Witz (1450-80)
  • (4) Hans Fries, Hans Holbein the Elder (Death of the Virgin)
  • (5) Holbein the Elder, Lucas Cranach the Elder
  • (6) Baldung, Cranach, Manuel-Deutsch
  • (7) Mathias Grunewald, Albrecht Altdorfer, Baldung
  • (8) Hans Holbein the Younger (selection of drawings)
  • (9) Ambrosius Holbein, Hans Holbein in the Younger
  • (10) Holbein the Younger, religious paintings ("Dead Christ", "Last Supper")
  • (11) Holbein the Younger, late portraits ("Family Group")
  • (12) Hans Bock the Elder (also Dutch painting of the 15th-17th c.)
  • (13) Tobias Stimmer, Bock; El Greco
  • (12) Quentin Matsys, Katharina von Hemessen, Frans Floris
  • (14) Breughel the Elder, Joos de Momper, Verhaecht, etc.
  • (15) Rembrandt, Pieter Lastman, etc.
  • (16-17) Flemish and Dutch landscapes
  • (18) Brouwer, Teniers, Adriaen van Ostade, Paulus Potter, etc.
  • (19) Jan van der Heyden, Pieter de Hooch, etc.
  • (20) Nicolaes Maes, Casper Netscher
  • (21) Jan van de Velde III, Willem van Aelst, Jan Fyt, etc.
  • (22-23) 18th c. painting
  • (22) Hyacinthe Rigaud, Anton Graff, Hubert Robert
  • (23) Swiss Alpine and landscape pictures: Caspar Wolf
  • (24-25) Romantic Neo-classicism
  • (24) Peter Birman, Joseph Anton Koch, Charles Gleyre
  • (25) Overbeck, Moritz von Schwind, Carl Gustav Carus
  • (26) Early 19th c. Swiss landscapists
  • (27) Theodore Gericault, Eugene Delacroix, Camille Corot
  • (28-34) Courbet, Manet, Renoir, Pissarro, Claude Monet
  • (29) German painting of the 19th c., Hans von Marees
  • (35-36) 19th c. Swiss painting
  • (35) Ferdinand Hodler
  • (36) Anselm Feuerbach, Arnold Bocklin
  • (1) Pop art
  • (2) Pablo Picasso
  • (3) "Les Fauves" art group around Henri Matisse
  • (4) Henri Rousseau
  • (5) Georges Braque, Juan Gris
  • (6) The Blue Rider group, Orphism, Futurism
  • (7) Marc Chagall
  • (8) Fernand Leger
  • (9) Expressionism, New Functionalism
  • (10) Alberto Glacometti
  • (11) Paul Klee
  • (12) De Stijl; Constructivism: Piet Mondrian
  • (13) Dadaism, Surrealism: Salvador Dali
  • (14) Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly, Jasper Johns
  • (15) Ecole de Paris: Joseph Beuys
  • (16) Modern American painting Franz Kline, Barnett Newman, Clyfford Still



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