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‘Charmion von Wiegand’ Review: Rediscovering an American Artist, in Switzerland

The largely forgotten abstract painter receives an illuminating retrospective at the Kunstmuseum Basel.

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Installation view of ‘Charmion von Wiegand’ Photo: Kunstmuseum Basel

Basel, Switzerland

‘The best critics have always been creators,” wrote Charmion von Wiegand in 1936. The American abstract artist, who was an influential art critic before she became a painter in middle age, is the subject of an illuminating retrospective at the Kunstmuseum Basel.

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