Article: Wealthy in art: the Fondation Beyeler in Basel, which houses the collection formed by Ernst Beyeler during his illustrious career as an art dealer, has appointed a new director. On the eve of Art Basel, Louise Nicholson pays a visit.(COLLECTORS & COLLECTING)(Basel, Switzerland; Sam Keller)

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Perhaps the world's finest private museum of 20th-century paintings and sculpture, the Fondation Beyeler lies outside Basel and has no car park. To reach it, just about everyone--be they London dealer, New York collector or art enthusiast--takes the number six tram from the town. It trundles across the Rhine, where locals swim on sultry summer days, cuts through the newer districts and soon arrives at the smart suburb of Riehen on the edge of open countryside. During this mechanised and democratising mini-pilgrimage, perhaps 20 minutes long, passengers leave the everyday world for that of Ernst Beyeler. One suspects that he planned it to be so. For Mr ...

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