Basel revisits collector Gertrud Dübi-Müller at the Kunstmuseum
The Kunstmuseum Basel is mounting an exhibition devoted to Gertrud Dübi-Müller, a Swiss heiress, mountaineer and motorist who became a major patron in 20th-century Switzerland. The show brings together works by Van Gogh and Cézanne to trace her place in art history.
The exhibition looks back at Gertrud Dübi-Müller through works by artists such as Van Gogh and Cézanne. By framing her story through the paintings she collected and supported, the museum treats collecting as an active form of looking, one that shapes how art is seen, compared and passed on.
For artists and for anyone interested in painting or drawing, that perspective matters. It underlines how a collection can reveal shared concerns in line, colour and composition, and how a collector can influence the afterlife of works through selection and context.
The result is a portrait of a woman whose taste carried weight in Swiss art culture. In Basel, the exhibition connects patronage with the practice of looking, and places the collector alongside the painters whose work she helped bring into focus.
Source : Le Monde – Arts