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Flood
From the collection of Kunstmuseum Basel. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Following a flood in the Isar valley, Stäbli discovered the motif of flooding in 1886, to which he devoted several variants in the following years. Equipped with waders and an iron easel, he painted in the middle of the flooded area (Graber 1916, pp. 54–55, 75). Exhibition catalogue Brugg 1984 shows on pages 117/118 the resulting variants and dates this picture to 1893 as the sixth picture; a seventh version went to the Neue Pinakothek in Munich. Mentioned in this context are...
Kunstmuseum Basel’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineÜberschwemmung. 1887. Adolf Stäbli (1842–1901). Kunstmuseum Basel, aus dem Vertrag mit dem Basler Kunstverein zugefallen. Public domain.
