page_title: Beyeler Foundation
section_title: Collection and exhibitions
hierarchical_section_title: Beyeler Foundation / Collection and exhibitions
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Казимир Малевич, Супрематическая композиция, 1915 г. Холст, масло, 80,4×80,6 см Хранится в музее фонда Бейелера, г. Риэн, под Базелем, Швейцария Фото: Роберт Байер, Базель English: Kazimir Malevich, Suprematist Composition, 1915 Oil on canvas, 80,4×80,6 cm Museum: Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, near Basel, Switzerland Photo: Robert Bayer, Basel Deutsch: Kasimir Malewitsch, Suprematistische Komposition, 1915 Huile sur toile, 80,4×80,6 cm Museum: Fondation Beyeler, Riehen bei Basel, Schweiz Photo: Robert Bayer, Basel
context_page_description: The Beyeler Foundation or Fondation Beyeler with its museum in Riehen, near Basel, owns and oversees the art collection of Hildy and Ernst Beyeler, which features modern art and tribal art. The Beyeler Foundation museum includes a space for special exhibitions staged to complement the permanent collection.
context_section_description: The Beyeler Foundation opened its doors on 18 October 1997, presenting 140 works of modern classics, including 23 Picassos. The overall collection of 200 works of classic modernism reflect the views of Hildy and Ernst Beyeler on 20th-century art and highlight features typical of the period from Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Vincent van Gogh to Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Francis Bacon (artist). The paintings appear alongside some 25 objects of tribal art from Africa, Oceania and Alaska. A third of the exhibition space is reserved for special exhibitions staged to complement the permanent collection. 
  The culmination of Beyeler's career came in 2007 when all the works that passed through his hands were reunited at the museum for a grand exhibition that included van Gogh's 1889 Portrait of Postman Roulin, Lichtenstein's Plus and Minus III and a huge expressive drip painting by Jackson Pollock. The collection is expanding, particularly in terms of works made after 1950 (recent acquisitions include pieces by Louise Bourgeois and Wolfgang Tillmans).
  The garden surrounding the museum also periodically serves as a venue for special exhibitions. In a work called "Wrapped Trees", Christo and Jeanne-Claude veiled 178 trees in the park around the Beyeler Foundation and in the adjacent Berower Park between 13 November and 14 December 1998.
caption: Suprematist Composition (1915), oil on canvas, by Kazimir Malevich
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