Carl Laszlo

Carl Laszlo (1923–2013) was a Hungarian-Jewish, later Swiss, collector, art dealer, psychoanalyst, and writer. Born in Pécs, he was deported in 1944 and survived several concentration camps, including Auschwitz, Sachsenhausen, and Buchenwald. After the Second World War, he worked as a psychoanalyst and art dealer in Basel and founded an art gallery there in 1962. His publications include the memoirs “Ferien am Waldsee” (1955) and “Der Weg nach Auschwitz” (1987). His extensive collecting activities included works by René Magritte, Otto Dix, Salvador Dalí, William Blake, and Andy Warhol, as well as Buddhist statues.