125 Years of Public Art Collection

Title: 125 Years of Public Art Collection

Author: P. Hecht

Binding: Paperback

EAN: 9789040085178

Condition: Good

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Description:
Thousands of works of art in Dutch public ownership, from Vermeer's Love Letter to Hieronymus Bosch's Prodigal Son, were acquired 'with the support of the Rembrandt Association.' This book tells us what that means, and how it worked and still works.
It shows how the Association helped the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam in 1900 to buy its first Rembrandt, but also that it did not stop at the concern for the preservation and return of the artistic heritage. The collecting of other old and non-Western art was supported with equal enthusiasm later, and after the Second World War this also applied to modern art.
When it was founded in 1883, the Association doubled the number of drawings in the Rijksprentenkabinet of the Rijksmuseum in a single evening. On the occasion of its hundredth anniversary, it supported the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam with the acquisition of two paintings by De Kooning. That is how young the Dutch public art collection is, and that is how vital the Rembrandt Association is. Its history is also a history of taste, policy and patronage, and adventurous as well.