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Abduction of Women
From the collection of Kunstmuseum Basel. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
The Basel native Otto Roos was trained as a painter in his hometown. He studied under Hermann Mayer and joined the circle around the painter Karl Dick. Thanks to a scholarship from the Basel Art Society, he studied sculpture in the winter of 1909/10 at the Académie Ranson with Aristide Maillol in Paris. By 1938, when he designed the capitals for the Kunstmuseum, he had reached the height of his career and received a retrospective exhibition at the Kunsthalle Basel.
Kunstmuseum Basel’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineFrauenraub. 1938. Otto Roos (1887–1945). Kunstmuseum Basel, Geschenk der Erbengemeinschaft Otto Roos. Public domain.
