Paul Schatz Foundation and Deutsche Paul Schatz Gesellschaft e.V. have decided to preserve the extensive estate of Paul Schatz with its wealth of topics and make it accessible to the public.

The archive of his written, sculptural, and technical estate is in Basel. Deutsche Paul Schatz Gesellschaft sponsors and promotes the aforementioned tasks and supports projects in Germany.

Both the Foundation with registered office in Basel and Deutsche Paul Schatz Gesellschaft with registered office in Göppingen depend on endowments, donations, and membership fees.

Conventions are important events to promote a transfer of knowledge between researchers and artists dedicating themselves to related fields of interest. The Foundation organizes the respective events at irregular intervals.

Attention focuses on the following work topics:

Estate – writings: the archive comprises personal and business letters, diaries and notebooks, drawings, poems, test reports; memoranda, papers, and works already published in the past. All these are gradually to be published or made accessible to those interested.

Estate – models: geometrical models, teaching aids, architectural or furniture models, as well as technical prototypes are on the verge of disintegrating. Proven experts shall restore these models with the help of endowments and donations.

Estate – sculptures: this part of the estate shall have to be indexed. Possibly, works now in private hands could be reacquired. Paul Schatz’s wooden sculptures have hardly been documented or described to date. A respective publication would also be worthwhile.

Water research: in the late 1950s Paul Schatz studied issues touching upon the quality of water and water treatment. This research approach continues the pioneering protection-of-the-environment movement and works on imaging methods in the field of quality assurance.

The art of engineering: to complement its historic work, the Foundation focuses on promoting developments conforming to Paul Schatz’s intention of creating an art of engineering respecting nature and man.

Exhibitions: geometric objects radiate an aesthetic fascination that allows the public to experience the phenomena of inversion in a truly impressive manner. The two companies have a travelling exhibition of about 40 objects and machines at disposal. In the 1980s and 1990s, more than 20 exhibitions were organized, all of them to great success. These objects may be put at the disposal of museums or other organizers such as schools and universities. A small permanent exhibition may also be visited at Jurastrasse 50 in Basel if you call in advance.

Organic architecture: a large part of the papers published by Paul Schatz in Mensch und Baukunst or Man and the Art of Building, a magazine, deals with the geometric foundation of a new definition of space that bases its holistic approach on the concept of inversion.

Some current, contemporary publications also refer to these works (Mochner; Düx).

The Board of Trustees consists of the following members:

Dr. Oliver Conrad Christoph Langscheid Tobias Langscheid Dr. René Favre

Paul Schatz Foundation: Articles of Association (in German, pdf)

Deutsche Paul Schatz Gesellschaft e.V.: Articles of Incorporation (in German, pdf)