Join us to celebrate the opening of Niklaus Stoecklin at Hauser & Wirth Basel this March.

Curated in close collaboration with Martin Schwander, the exhibition brings together rare paintings from the 1920s through the 1970s, tracing Stoecklin’s evolution from the cool, detached precision of interwar realism to the luminous stillness of his later works.

Opening  Reception
Thursday, 19 March 
6 – 8 pm  

RSVP is not required

Hauser & Wirth Basel
Luftgässlein 4, Basel
+41 43 547 46 30

Gallery Opening Hours
Tuesday – Friday, 2 – 6 pm
Saturday, 11 am – 4 pm

About the artist
Niklaus Stoecklin was born in Basel in 1896 and died in Riehen near Basel in 1982. After a brief period of artistic training in Basel and Munich, he exhibited his work for the first time at the Kunsthalle Basel in 1914. In 1925, he was the only Swiss artist to participate in Gustav Friedrich Hartlaub's legendary exhibition 'Die Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity)' at the Kunsthalle Mannheim in Germany. Today, he is considered one of the leading representatives of New Objectivity and Magic Realism. He achieved international renown through his paintings but also through his work as a poster designer. His works can be found in the Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland; Museum für Neue Kunst in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany; Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts in Lausanne, Switzerland; Museum of Modern Art in New York NY; Museum zu Allerheiligen in Schaffhausen, Switzerland; Kunst Museum Winterthur, Switzerland; and Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland, among others.