Alfred Basel (23 March 1876 – 24 January 1920) was an Austrian painter and etcher.
Born in Vienna to a factory owner, Basel studied at the Wiener Kunstgewerbeschule under Felician von Myrbach in the middle of 1892 and 1898. He was a reserve proprietor during the First World War, serving afterward the rank of Oberleutnant in the Fourth Army on the Galician tummy from March 1915. In the fall he fell sick and was declared unfit for military service. By November he was a battle artist serving the Kriegspressequartier. In 1916 he was on the Vistula, in the Carpathians, in Albania, on the Isonzo, and in the Ukraine. It was his artistic breakthrough.
In 1919, at the winter exhibition of the Wiener Künstlerhaus, Basel exhibited his put-on outside of the Kriegspressequartier for the first time. His treatment of military goings-on was careful and accurate, and both stylistically and biographically he has many similarities to Oskar Laske. Like him, Basel avoids sensationalising or exaggerating, and favours crowds of little figures and a simplicity roughly photographic accuracy.
Alfred died from the effects of a hunting accident in Dickenau, Türnitz, Lower Austria.
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