Ivan Baschang was born 1971 in Karlsruhe, Germany. He currently lives and works freelance in Munich and Paris.
- 1995 – 1998 Academy for Photographic Design (Munich School of Photography)
- 1998 – 2002 Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich under Gerd Winner
- Since 2000 Study and work stays in Paris
- 2003 Diploma in Munich under Sean Scully
- Since 2010 Artistic collaborator of Jean Marc Bustamante at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich.
The series “Corbeilles de Paris” (Paris Baskets) by artist and photographer Ivan Baschang documents the historic—and long-neglected—iron baskets of Parisian street furniture, now replaced by modern garbage cans.
The iron “Corbeille Tulipe,” the “tulip-shaped basket,” was designed after the end of the First World War. It blends elements of the emerging Art Deco style with references to the organic forms of the Napoleonic era, which still largely defined the Parisian cityscape.
The project encompassed both the archival collection of the iron baskets themselves and the unique photographic documentation and search for the last remaining examples of the Tulipe model. Baschang thus preserves what will soon be gone. This seemingly inconspicuous detail of Parisian architecture reveals a history of industrialization, politics, and urban design.
