Long before the ‘Wild Swiss’ Henry Fuseli became famous for his spectacular illustrations of Shakespeare in Georgian London, he was steeping his imagination in literature and theatre as a student in Zurich. With some 70 paintings, including theatrical scenes and portraits of writers, this exhibition traces the development of his dramatic and idiosyncratic style of painting, which mirrored a broader aesthetic shift in the period from classicism to Romanticism. Find out more about ‘Fuseli: Drama and Theatre’ from the Kunstmuseum Basel’s website.
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The sleepwalking Lady Macbeth (1784), Henry Fuseli. Photo: Hervé Lewandowski; © RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre)
Mad Kate (1806/07), Henry Fuseli. Photo: Ursula Edelmann; © Freies Deutsches Hochstift/Frankfurter Goethe-Museum
Percival Delivering Bellman from the Enchantment of Urma (1783), Henry Fuseli. Tate, London
Cupid and Psyche (c. 1810), Henry Fuseli. Photo: © Kunsthaus Zürich
Titania Caressing Bottom (1793/94), Henry Fuseli. Photo: © Kunsthaus Zürich
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