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2026-02-20

FOR ART – A Temporary Art Intervention by Littmann Kulturprojekte. Basel 2025–2028

FOR ART «Wirziana – The Other World of Peter Wirz»

Preview: March 10 to April 25, 2026. “Wirziana – The Other World of Peter Wirz.” FOR ART presents in Basel the first comprehensive exhibition of the work of Peter Wirz (1915–2000). Opening: Tuesday, March 10, 2026, 6–8 pm.

FOR ART is dedicating Basel’s first comprehensive exhibition to Peter Wirz (1915–2000). “I drew in a futurist-symbolic style,” the artist wrote about himself, “combined with decorations of my own system and mystical.” In defiance of a life marked by exclusion, humiliation, and misunderstanding, the assistant gardener and psychiatric patient invented a world of his own. Heraldic signs and typographic inventions speak of dignity and power. Churches resemble closed institutions, and scenes of violence may echo the biographical drama of a creator for whom little mattered as much as drawing and writing.

OPENING – Save the Date
Tuesday, March 10, 6:00 to 8:00 pm

Exhibition open March 13 to April 25, 2026:
Friday and Saturday from 11 am to 6 pm,
and by appointment (info@klauslittmann.com)

Address:
FOR ART – a temporary art intervention by Littmann Kulturprojekte
Rittergasse 25, CH-4051 Basel
Free admission

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