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Édouard Vuillard: In the Louvre-Paintings for a Basel Villa
Édouard Vuillard’s fascinating paintings of the Louvre for a villa in Basel.

In 1921 and 1922, soon after the end of World War I and the reopening of the Louvre, Édouard Vuillard created a cycle of six paintings for the entrance hall of the Villa Bauer in Basel, Switzerland. Four of these large-format pictures show exhibition rooms in the Louvre from antiquity to French rococo painting and two overdoors provide an intimate insight into the artist’s collection. The cycle of paintings is of outstanding quality in both content and form, but it has seldom been examined and exhibited to date. 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.
 
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Édouard Vuillard: In the Louvre-Paintings for a Basel Villa
Édouard Vuillard’s fascinating paintings of the Louvre for a villa in Basel.

In 1921 and 1922, soon after the end of World War I and the reopening of the Louvre, Édouard Vuillard created a cycle of six paintings for the entrance hall of the Villa Bauer in Basel, Switzerland. Four of these large-format pictures show exhibition rooms in the Louvre from antiquity to French rococo painting and two overdoors provide an intimate insight into the artist’s collection. The cycle of paintings is of outstanding quality in both content and form, but it has seldom been examined and exhibited to date. 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.
 
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Édouard Vuillard: In the Louvre-Paintings for a Basel Villa

Édouard Vuillard: In the Louvre-Paintings for a Basel Villa

by Martin Schwander (Editor)
Édouard Vuillard: In the Louvre-Paintings for a Basel Villa

Édouard Vuillard: In the Louvre-Paintings for a Basel Villa

by Martin Schwander (Editor)

Overview

Édouard Vuillard’s fascinating paintings of the Louvre for a villa in Basel.

In 1921 and 1922, soon after the end of World War I and the reopening of the Louvre, Édouard Vuillard created a cycle of six paintings for the entrance hall of the Villa Bauer in Basel, Switzerland. Four of these large-format pictures show exhibition rooms in the Louvre from antiquity to French rococo painting and two overdoors provide an intimate insight into the artist’s collection. The cycle of paintings is of outstanding quality in both content and form, but it has seldom been examined and exhibited to date. 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.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783777437590
Publisher: Hirmer Publishers
Publication date: 02/18/2022
Pages: 160
Product dimensions: 8.50(w) x 11.25(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

Foreword and Acknowledgments Andreas Burckhardt Thomas Von Planta 6

Édouard Vuillard and his "décor bâlois" Martin Schwander 16

The Spectacle of Art 38

Édouard Vuillard at the Louvre Mathias Chivot

Édouard Vuillard's Au Louvre Cycle 62

A Tour through the Millennia Lukas Gloor

Still Lifes as Self-Portraits 84

On the Two Sopraporte from Édouard Vuillard's Au Louvre Cycle Martin Schwander

Édouard Vuillard's Au Louvre Cycle 102

Titles, Provenances and Exhibitions Lukas Gloor Martin Schwander

Édouard Vuillard's Au Louvre Cycle - Plates 117

The Painter and the Interpreter 144

The Origin of Édouard Vuillard's Au Louvre Cycle Bodo Vischer

Luxury for a Time. The Villa at 21 Aeschengraben Dorothee Huber 170

List of Illustrated Works 189

Selected Bibliography and Sources 195

Vorwort und Dank Andreas Burckhardt Thomas Von Planta 7

Édouard Vuillard und sein «decor bâlois» Martin Schwander 15

Grosse Bühne für die Kunst 37

Édouard Vuillard im Louvre Mathias Chivot

Édouard Vuillards Zyklus Au Louvre 61

Ein Gang durch die Jahrtausende Lukas Gloor

Stillleben als Selbstbildnisse 83

Zu den beiden Supraporten aus Édouard Vuillards Zyklus Au Louvre Martin Schwander

Édouard Vuillards Zyklus Au Louvre 101

Bildtitel, Provenienzen und Ausstellungen Lukas Gloor Martin Schwander

Édouard Vuillards Zyklus Au Louvre - Tafeln 117

Der Maler und der Dolmetscher 143

Zur Entstehungsgeschichte von Édouard Vuillards Zyklus Au Louvre Bodo Vischer

Luxus auf Zeit. Die Villa am Aeschengraben 21 Dorothee Huber 169

Verzeichnis der abgebildeten Werke 189

Ausgewählte Literatur und Quellen 195

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