Ever since the early 1970s Werner von Mutzenbecher has numbered among the most important
protagonists of the cultural scene in Basel: not only as an artist whose works were presented
in numerous solo and group exhibitions and are included in many Swiss collections but also
both as a teacher for many years at the Schule für Gestaltung Basel and through his interim
directorship of the Kunsthalle Basel during the 1970s. For many decades his painterly cosmos
has been the world around him with his oeuvre consisting of its abstraction and interpretation
in a realization that can variously be figurative abstract or also concrete. The artistic
expression can also flow into language literature video Super8 or 16mm film. It is here that
is to be found the key to the complexity of his oeuvre and hence to the multiplicity of media
which Mutzenbecher knows how to activate. The present monograph was created on the occasion of
his solo exhibition at the Kunsthaus Baselland and offers for the first time a comprehensive
overview of his extensive artistic production discussed by colleagues and authors from
different areas such as film video literature art history etc. An illustrious polyphony to
a life in pictures.