Frans Hals Museum

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Frans Hals Museum

The Frans Hals Museum is a municipal art museum in Haarlem , the Netherlands , which is named after Frans Hals (c. 1582–1666), a portrait painter who worked in Haarlem during the Dutch Golden Age in the 17th century .

The museum is housed in a former old man's house in the style of the 17th century and mainly shows paintings by Haarlem artists from the 16th and 17th centuries. There is another part of the Municipal Museum with a focus on modern art, called Museum de Hallen , which is located on the Grote Markt ("Big Market").

history

The city's collection was created in 1581, after taking pictures from monasteries during the Reformation . In 1862 the works were shown in what was then the town hall. Artists such as Claude Monet , Max Liebermann and James McNeill Whistler came as visitors. The house has been in its current location since 1913, the Oudemannenhuis , a courtyard from 1609, which was largely rebuilt in the early 17th century at the beginning of the 20th century.

collection

The museum includes works by predecessors, students, colleagues and competitors as well as around a dozen works by Hals himself. Outstanding are the marksmen and regent pieces, group portraits commissioned by the rifle guilds and the heads of charity organizations.

Hals' predecessors include Jan van Scorel , Maarten van Heemskerck , Cornelis van Haarlem , Hendrick Goltzius , Karel van Mander . His students usually include Adriaen Brouwer , Judith Leyster and Jan Miense Molenaer .

Works by other artists in the museum are from

Web links

Commons : Frans Hals Museum  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Antoon Erftemeijer, Henriëtte vehicle Snethlage, Neeltje Köhler: The Frans Hals Museum Haarlem , Ludion, Amsterdam-Gent in 2003, ISBN 90-76588-55-4 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 36 ″  N , 4 ° 38 ′ 0 ″  E