From 12 July to three November 2024, the Gemäldegalerie presents the exhibition “Frans Hals. Master of the Fleeting Moment”
Supply: Die Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin · Picture: Frans Hals, “Der Lautenspieler”, 1623/24, Paris, Musée du Louvre Photograph, © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée du Louvre) / Franck Raux
Together with Rembrandt and Vermeer, Frans Hals ranks among the many most excellent Dutch painters of the seventeenth century. Along with unconventional, expressive portraits, he was the primary artist in Holland to color social outsiders as people in portrait format. Like no different artist of the early trendy interval, the rediscovery of the Haarlem painter within the nineteenth century formed the event of recent portray. In cooperation with the Nationwide Gallery, London, and the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, the Gemäldegalerie is organizing a complete monographic exhibition of some 70 works.
At the moment, Frans Hals (1582/83–1666) is taken into account one of the crucial vital portraitists who ever lived. Along with large-format portraits of civic militias and regents, he created quite a few particular person portraits of the Dutch citizenry in Haarlem, the place he spent nearly his total life. As well as, he painted style figures resembling singers, entertainers, and fisher youngsters as half-figures in close-up. The individuals Hals depicted are characterised by their unusually nice liveliness and placing characterization. His sketch-like work, executed with free, daring brushstrokes, influenced painters of the late nineteenth century. The Impressionists noticed in Hals one among their forerunners.
With 9 works, the Berlin Gemäldegalerie holds one of the crucial intensive and high-caliber collections of work by Frans Hals on the earth, together with highlights such because the “Malle Babbe”, the “Portrait of Catharina Hooft with Her Nurse”, and the “Singing Boy with Flute”.
