Kunstmuseum Basel (Hauptbau and Neubau)St. Alban
The collector and motoring pioneer Gertrud Dübi-Müller and her collection, shown in the Neubau.
Hodler chose Gertrud Müller's pink satin dress himself and finished the full-length portrait in fourteen days. She was 23, in a format kept for centuries for prominent figures, and she greets you as you walk into room 1.
Around eighty works fill nine rooms on the Neubau's second floor, most lent by the Kunstmuseum Solothurn. The show sticks to her early years: the Van Gogh she bought at twenty, a Cezanne sent to Solothurn on approval, a Klimt that hung in her bedroom. Between them are her photographs and letters from the artists she drove to the mountains in her cabriolet. She and her brother shipped one gramophone back and forth between Geneva and Solothurn to keep up with the tango, the 1910s version of sharing a Spotify login.
Wednesdays run to 8pm. The audio guide, in English, German and French, plays on your phone, so bring headphones. On 25 November and 9 December the Neubau foyer holds a tango salon, 6 to 9pm, free but ticketed.
Hodler chose the pink satin dress and painted the 23-year-old Gertrud Müller full length in fourteen days. The rest is her early collection: Van Gogh, Cézanne, a Klimt from her bedroom, and 3D projections of her own stereo photographs.
Hodler's Portrait of Gertrud Müller
Look for the 23-year-old standing full length in pink satin, the 1911 painting that opens the show and was Hodler's reply to two rival portraits of her.
Amiet's The Violet Hat
In room 4, Amiet paints the 19-year-old in a violet hat with heavy black outlines, his side of a friendly 1907 contest with Giacometti.
Van Gogh's Portrait of Charles-Elzéard Trabuc
The stern chief warden of the Saint-Rémy asylum, her first painting and the only Van Gogh here, with an enlarged photograph of it hanging in her home.
Klimt's Goldfish (To My Critics)
A woman turns her bare buttocks to the viewer, Klimt's retort to his critics, given to her as an engagement present and hung in her bedroom.
Her stereo photographs in 3D
In room 5, forty-five of her glass-plate stereo photographs are projected in 3D: artists, social life, Alpine sports and border guards.
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