Cover of From Dürer to Gober exhibition catalog

From Dürer to Gober: 101 Master Drawings from the Kupferstichkabinett of the Kunstmuseum Basel

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Published on the occasion of From Dürer to Gober: 101 Master Drawings from the Kupferstichkabinett of the Kunstmuseum Basel, held at the Kunstmuseum Basel, October 3, 2009 through January 24, 2010.

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Editor: Christian Müller

Art period: Renaissance, Modernism & Avant-Garde, Postwar & Contemporary ArtArtist: Albrecht Durer, Andy Warhol, Hans Holbein the Younger, Joseph Beuys, Robert GoberMuseum: Kunstmuseum BaselItem condition: NewBinding: PaperbackLanguage: EnglishISBN: 9783777423715

Few museums can trace their drawings collection back to the sixteenth century. The Kupferstichkabinett of the Kunstmuseum Basel grew out of the cabinet of the Basel lawyer Basilius Amerbach (1533–1591) and today holds some 60,000 drawings and 250,000 prints. This catalog distills six centuries of that holding into 101 master sheets, from around 1400 to the present day.

The selection opens with the masters of the Upper Rhine, with Albrecht Dürer and Hans Holbein the Younger, whose drawings remain one of Basel’s great strengths, and carries the story through to postwar and contemporary artists such as Joseph Beuys, Andy Warhol, Brice Marden and Robert Gober. Seen together, the sheets show how drawing moved from workshop model and preparatory study to an independent art form.

Edited by Christian Müller, who curated the exhibition with Anita Haldemann, the volume brings together texts by Yvonne Boerlin-Brodbeck and other specialists of the collection, and closes with an extensive bibliography. It is the English edition of the German catalog Von Dürer bis Gober.

A rewarding book for collectors and students of works on paper, and a natural companion to Kunstmuseum Basel: The Masterpieces.