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Artists from A-Z Marcel Schaffner

1931–2012
  • Untitled (1999)
    Untitled
    Artist: Marcel Schaffner Dating: 1999 Type: Work on paper Material: Mixed media on paper Measures: 61 x 86 cm Acces / purchase date: 2024 Inventory number: 1773 Copyright: © Frida Bovet Schaffner; Fotos: Christian Baur, Basel
  • Untitled (1995)
    Untitled
    Artist: Marcel Schaffner Dating: 1995 Type: Work on paper Material: Mixed media on paper Measures: 42 x 59 cm Acces / purchase date: 2024 Inventory number: 1772 Copyright: © Frida Bovet Schaffner; Fotos: Christian Baur, Basel
  • Maschine (1958)
    Maschine
    Artist: Marcel Schaffner Dating: 1958 Type: Painting Material: Oil on canvas Measures: 159 x 110 cm Acces / purchase date: 1958 Inventory number: 0359 Copyright: © Frida Bovet Schaffner; Fotos: Christian Baur, Basel
  • Im Grünen (1958)
    Im Grünen
    Artist: Marcel Schaffner Dating: 1958 Type: Painting Material: Oil on canvas Measures: 144 x 155 cm Acces / purchase date: 1961 Inventory number: 0360 Copyright: © Frida Bovet Schaffner; Fotos: Christian Baur, Basel
In the mid-fifties, Schaffner achieved a high degree of abstraction. The landscape is built up two-dimensionally. Objects such as houses, roofs, trees and fields are fragmented and reduced to simple shapes such as rectangles, trapezoids or ovals. The rhythmically arranged colour fields combine in their cheerful colourfulness to form a well-ordered composition, which derives its charm from the interplay of the form references and the different brightness values.

Stutzer, Beat, Dieter Koepplin: Marcel Schaffner. In: Editions Galerie Carzaniga & Ueker Basel, Vol. 9, 1991, pp.12-13.