Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation

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The Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation was founded in 1933 by Maja Hoffmann-Stehlin, later Maja Sacher (1898–1989), to continue the commitment to contemporary art that she began with her husband Emanuel Hoffmann , who died young . The purpose of the foundation is to collect works by artists "who use new, future-oriented means of expression that are not yet generally understood by the present" and to make them publicly visible through permanent exhibitions.

Art Museum Basel

In 1940 the foundation moved with a collection of over twenty works by Georges Braque , Paul Klee , Marc Chagall , Gustave de Smet , Marcel Gromaire , Max Ernst , Hans Arp , Piet Mondrian , Theo van Doesburg , Antoine Pevsner , László Moholy-Nagy , Sophie Taeuber , Le Corbusier and Walter Bodmer at the Kunstmuseum Basel . In the following year, a deposit agreement was made between the foundation and the museum that allows the foundation collection to be exhibited within the framework of its own collection. With its acquisitions, the foundation not only helps to prepare its own purchases for the museum, but also to prepare donations.

To this day, the foundation capital guarantees an independent foundation board the continuous continuation of the collection. Works from the collection are exhibited in the Museum for Contemporary Art in Basel and in the Schaulager in Münchenstein .

From December 13, 1991 to February 16, 1992 , the Deichtorhallen Hamburg exhibited works from the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation, Basel, under the title “Viewpoints of Modernism - From Picasso to Clemente” .

literature

  • Franz Meyer (Vorw.): The collection of the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation . Kunstmuseum Basel November 7, 1970 to January 24, 1971, Basel 1970

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b From the deed of foundation from 1933 , in: Franz Meyer (Vorw.): The collection of the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation . Kunstmuseum Basel November 7, 1970 to January 24, 1971, Basel 1970, p. 8
  2. ↑ From the deed of foundation of 1933 , in: Franz Meyer (Vorw.): Die Sammlung der Emanuel Hoffmann-Stiftung , p. 3 f.