Progressive Museum Basel
The Progressive Museum Basel (also: Das Progressive Museum ) existed as an independent exhibition company from 1968 to 1974. Parts of its collection for avant-garde art, especially from the 1960s, are exhibited in Haus Konstruktiv in Zurich.
The museum was founded on April 25, 1968 based on the model of the state-independent donor museums in the USA by personalities from Basel's economic and cultural circles around Carl Laszlo , Antoinette Vischer and Markus Kutter . The foundation set itself the goal of “creating a modern collection that should be accessible to the public from the start”. The purpose of the foundation is as follows: "To promote the recognition of existing works of art and the work of living artists by purchasing works of art, opening a museum and organizing events that give the public the opportunity to deal with the trends in modern art." In contrast to the “secularized celebration” of traditional museums, a casual meeting place was to be created here, where people could smoke and deal with some of the art exhibits.
The descriptive name meant that on the one hand " progressive " art was exhibited and on the other hand it was a "Museum in Progress", ie a museum in transition or in progress, as it was not founded to show an already existing collection but “to create one”. Collectors and artists were encouraged to donate or asked to loan items for temporary exhibitions.
The focus of the collection came on the work of the not yet established generation of artists: Markus Raetz , Christian Megert , Paul Talman , Günter Fruhtrunk , Hartmut Böhm , Marina Apollonio , Gianni Colombo , Roman Clemens , Fritz Glarner , Jesús Rafael Soto . The construction work of the 1960s in the area of the New Tendencies with the emphasis on new materials, kinetics and Op Art became the mainstay . The representatives of the older generation, to whom the public collections had mostly still refused recognition, formed a secondary pillar : Sophie Taeuber-Arp , Erich Buchholz , Walter Dexel , Etienne Beothy , Verena Loewensberg , Max Bill , Robert Strübin .
Due to increasing financial bottlenecks, the Board of Trustees decided at the end of 1974 to give up the museum. The loans were returned to their owners, the donations were stored in the Kunstmuseum Basel . Parts of the collection remained accessible in the Basel Stock Exchange, after which it was converted into a bank. After this property had also been completely renovated, the collection temporarily disappeared from the public. Haus Konstruktiv , which opened in Zurich in 2001 , now exhibits individual works from the Progressive Museum on permanent loan.
See also
Web links
- Art aspects: The Progressive Museum Basel , accessed on February 23, 2008.
- art49.com: The Progressive Museum Basel , accessed on February 23, 2008.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Basel-Stadt commercial register ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 23, 2008.
