The Solly Collection, 1821–2021: Founding the Berlin Gemaldegalerie
The Solly Collection, 1821–2021: Founding the Berlin Gemaldegalerie
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The Solly Collection, 1821–2021: Founding the Berlin Gemaldegalerie
W033360 | $41.99 / 10% library disc.
Exhibition Catalog
Ed. by Robert Swirblies et al. Gemaldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin-Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, 2021. Published in association with Deutscher Kunstverlag, Walter de Gruyter Gmbh, Berlin.
136 pp. Well illustrated (chiefly col.). 28 x 22 cm. In English. Paperbound.
ISBN 9783422986640
The foundations for a world-class public art collection in Berlin were laid in 1821: This was the year the Kingdom of Prussia acquired on behalf of the museum to be established in Berlin the painting collection of English merchant Edward Solly (1776-1844). Between 1815 and 1820 this cosmopolitan lover of the arts amassed thousands of paintings above all from Italy, Germany and the Netherlands. Many of the works were by artists little known at the time but who subsequently came to be greatly appreciated and are still renowned today. The exhibition and the catalogue showcase a representative selection of masterpieces, rediscoveries, and “historical peculiarities”, and provide an insight into an age that shaped our concepts of art and museums and had an entirely different view of the works than we have today.
Subject Headings: Eastern and Western European Art ; Western Art -- 300 A.D.-1400 ; 1400-1600 -- Painting --
W033360 | $41.99 / 10% library disc.
Exhibition Catalog
Ed. by Robert Swirblies et al. Gemaldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin-Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, 2021. Published in association with Deutscher Kunstverlag, Walter de Gruyter Gmbh, Berlin.
136 pp. Well illustrated (chiefly col.). 28 x 22 cm. In English. Paperbound.
ISBN 9783422986640
The foundations for a world-class public art collection in Berlin were laid in 1821: This was the year the Kingdom of Prussia acquired on behalf of the museum to be established in Berlin the painting collection of English merchant Edward Solly (1776-1844). Between 1815 and 1820 this cosmopolitan lover of the arts amassed thousands of paintings above all from Italy, Germany and the Netherlands. Many of the works were by artists little known at the time but who subsequently came to be greatly appreciated and are still renowned today. The exhibition and the catalogue showcase a representative selection of masterpieces, rediscoveries, and “historical peculiarities”, and provide an insight into an age that shaped our concepts of art and museums and had an entirely different view of the works than we have today.
Subject Headings: Eastern and Western European Art ; Western Art -- 300 A.D.-1400 ; 1400-1600 -- Painting --
