Hauser & Wirth Basel unveils rare works by Niklaus Stoecklin

Focusing on the 20th-century Swiss artist Niklaus Stoecklin (1896–1982), Hauser & Wirth Basel presents a group of his paintings and drawings from the 1920s to the 1970s, including several works that have rarely been shown in public before. This exhibition, curated by Martin Schwander, traces Stoecklin’s artistic development from the coolly detached figuration of the interwar period to the diaphanous luminosity of his late work. It follows on from group exhibitions on New Objectivity painting in Mannheim and Chemnitz last year, which highlighted Stoecklin’s contribution to this important modernist artistic movement. Niklaus Stoecklin, born into a Basel merchant family, showed exceptional talent for drawing from an early age. At the beginning of 1914, he enrolled at the School of Applied Arts in Munich. When World War I broke out, he returned