Beyeler Foundation
The Beyeler Foundation or Fondation Beyeler, with its museum in Riehen, near Basel (Switzerland), owns and oversees the art collection of Hildy and Ernst Beyeler, which features modern and traditional art. The Beyeler Foundation museum includes a space for special exhibitions staged to complement the permanent collection. In 2006, approximately 340,000 persons visited the museum. The number of visitors in 2016 was 332,000.[1] The Beyeler Foundation is the most visited museum of art in all of Switzerland.[2] The museum is properly funded, and it receives annual grants from the cantons of Basel City and Basel County and the commune of Riehen.[3] Major partners of the Foundation are Bayer AG, Novartis and Swiss bank UBS.[4]
Established
1982
c. 332,000 (2016)
Sam Keller
- Theodora Vischer
- Ulf Küster
- Raphaël Bouvier
- Michiko Kono
History[edit]
Art dealers Ernst Beyeler (16 July 1921 – 25 February 2010) and Hilda Kunz (1922 - 18 July 2008), known as Hildy, created the Beyeler Foundation in 1982 and commissioned Renzo Piano to design a museum to house their private collection.[5] The collection was first publicly exhibited in its entirety at the Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid in 1989, and was subsequently shown at Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin in 1993 and the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney in 1997.[6] In September 1994 the groundbreaking of the museum took place.[7] The inauguration was scheduled for 1996, but postponed until 1997 due to delays in the construction.[7] In October 1997, the Beyeler Foundation made its collection accessible to the public.[7]
Claude Monet
Paul Klee
Paul Cézanne
Vincent Van Gogh
