Charmion von Wiegand (1896–1983) was an American journalist, art critic, and abstract painter. Von Wiegand won recognition as an artist with paintings that fused geometric abstraction with Far Eastern pictorial symbolism. Until August 13, 2023, the Kunstmuseum Basel presents the first retrospective of her oeuvre in almost four decades. The exhibition is also Charmion von Wiegand's very first institutional show in Europe. The retrospective traces Charmion von Wiegand's career from her early days as a correspondent in 1930s post-revolutionary Moscow to her late work in painting.
Charmion von Wiegand's breakthrough as an artist came in 1945, when she showed a work in the visionary exhibition “The Women” at Peggy Guggenheim’s gallery Art of This Century. The exhibition Charmion von Wiegand features forty-nine paintings and works on paper provided by Swiss and international lenders. The great majority of the works come from the artist’s estate, complemented by loans from the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; the Seattle Art Museum; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and other collections.
Charmion von Wiegand / Retrospective at Kunstmuseum Basel | Neubau. Press preview, March 23, 2023.
