The heroes and Sibbecai Benaia from the Alternative mirror Altar, about 1435 Basel. - Konrad Witz is one of the most radical innovators of the painting in the first half of the 15th Century. 1434 he is coming to Basel, probably attracted by the international atmosphere of this day be big church council. 1447 he is already dead. In the brief period of little more than a decade, he created a series of large altarpieces, of which each only a few panels have survived. Joke is counted in general the most important representatives of the Upper Rhenish painting of the late Gothic period, or that of the Netherlands (Robert Campin, Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden) dominated the so-called ars nova of the early Renaissance north of the Alps. The Kunstmuseum Basel is now dedicating him an exhibit.
There are also fragmentary evidence, evidence of his work as a muralist. Herein is refracted a new interest in the outside world immediately tangible car. The study of visual phenomena - light, shadows or reflections - and the search for evidence of spatial depth and landscape Witzens knowledge of the simultaneous Dutch painting.
Since its rediscovery by Daniel Burckhardt-Werthemann in 1901, Konrad Witz has fascinated many generations of researchers and busy. The Basel exhibition fulfilled now a cherished dream for decades: the first time, the work of this idiosyncratic pioneer in large part of the public will be presented. The focal point of the famous, probably for the Basel Leonhardskirche executed salvation mirror altar.
After several years of restoration can not only presents the nine panels of its own stock in a new light and in light of recent technological developments have be. They will also temporarily merged with the other in Dijon and Berlin received the parts of this unique ensemble.
To handwritten works by Konrad Witz created a vast panorama, is examined in the questions about his artistic background and his position in the painting of the time. With more than 90 exhibits, including numerous loans including the areas of graphics, wall and glass painting, finally, the formative effect demonstrates that radiated far art of jokes on his contemporaries about the limits of Basel and the Upper Rhine region.
opening times: Tuesday to Sunday 10 - 17 clock
Konrad Witz
6. March to 3 July 2011
Kunstmuseum Basel St. Alban-Graben 16
CH - 4010 Basel
0041 (0) 61 20662-62
www.kunstmuseumbasel.ch
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