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It’s certainly one of this year’s highlights: the Vincent van Gogh exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Basel in Switzerland: Vincent van Gogh – Between Earth and Heaven: The Landscapes (zwischen Erde und Himmel: Die Landschaften). As you know, we usually focus on contemporary art. But as we did with the Holbein the Younger exhibition at the same location sometimes we have a look at the old school as well.

With Vincent van Gogh – Between Earth and Heaven: The Landscapes the Kunstmuseum Basel stages a spectacular, comprehensive exhibition of Vincent van Gogh’s landscape paintings. The show comprises seventy paintings, both world-famous key works as well as paintings barely seen previously by the general public. In addition, forty masterpieces by contemporaries from Kunstmuseum Basel’s collection place Vincent van Gogh’s groundbreaking approach to nature in a broader context.

Vincent van Gogh – Between Earth and Heaven: The Landscapes at Kunstmuseum Basel runs until September 27, 2009.

Vincent van Gogh, Kunstmuseum Basel / Switzerland. Press Preview, April 23, 2009.

PS: To create space for the show, parts of the Kunstmuseum’s collection had to be removed. The Schaulager’s proposal was to host these work and to present them in an exhibition. It’s called Holbein to Tillmans. Prominent Guests from the Kunstmuseum Basel and runs until October 4, 2009.

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