We’ve been browsing our archive for the current exhibition in Basel ‘Exploring the Archive: On Surrealism.’ In this vitrine we see a painting ‘Die Spielregeln der Ehe’ from 1963 by #KonradKlapheck, including the catalog showing the work, letters and postcards by Klapheck that are related to the long-lasting correspondence between Miklos and Margareta von Bartha and himself. . Through purchasing the significant painting, “Art Amour Liberté” (image 2) by Klapheck (b. 1935, Düsseldorf), from André Breton’s private collection, an intensive exchange of opinions with the artist himself, as well as the incorporation of works by Klapheck into their collection was initiated. Klapheck’s style of painting combines Neorealism, Surrealism and Pop Art (long before Pop Art existed). His first painting executed at art school depicted a typewriter and he continued to use machines and apparatuses, as well as everyday objects, as models for his paintings. Since becoming acquainted with André Breton in 1961, Klapheck became known as the “Machinery Painter” of the Surrealists. #exploringthearchive #surrealism