Exposition : “Collectors’ Dreams – Glorious Moments in Netherlandish Baroque Art”, Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud, jusqu’au 21 avril 2024
“Collectors are happy people” is the last line of the short story The Invisible Collection (1925) by Austrian writer Stefan Zweig. This exhibition illustrates the happiness of collectors. For the first time ever, Collectors’ Dreams shows a marvelous German private collection brimming with star painters of the seventeenth-century Netherlandish art world. Starting in 1970, the collection was assembled over three decades through shrewd purchases on the international art market. The collection was recently entrusted on permanent loan to the...