Emil Beurmann

[3][4] He found himself a cheap room in the Latin Quarter and quickly made contact with high-profile artists including Albert Anker, Lovis Corinth, Cuno Amiet und Giovanni Giacometti.

After this he settled back home in Basel where he was able to make a living producing portraits, although he came to dislike this work.

He owes his reputation as the "city poet" to a series of amusing newspaper columns he contributed under the pseudonym "Beuz".

[10] Their home became a focus for the cultural elite of the day, with visitors such as Richard Strauss, Max Reinhardt and the Viennese writer, Arthur Schnitzler.

[10] At the age of 75, Emil Beurmann wrote, based on Johann Nestroy's posse Der böse Geist Lumpacivagabundus [de], the Baslerdüütsch libretto for Hans Haug's operetta E liederlig Kleeblatt (lit.