10 Years of Fondation Beyeler
60 Years of Galerie Beyeler
In 2007 the Fondation Beyeler celebrates the tenth anniversary of
the inauguration of the museum, founded by Ernst and Hildy Beyeler on
the basis of their art dealership, Galerie Beyeler. The occasion will
be marked with a special exhibition, the first to be devoted to the
now sixty-year history of the gallery.
About 16,000 paintings, sculptures,
and works on paper - not including prints and editions - passed through
the premises at Bäumleingasse 9, the gallery's location since its inception.
From this overwhelming number a selection of masterworks is made, and placed
in a dialogue with the museum's collection.
This "Other Collection" transforms
the Fondation Beyeler into a small musée imaginaire, in which many splendid
works that have long since entered major public and private collections
around the world will be reunited.