The Golden Age of Dutch Painting
Pieter Claesz, Still Life with Fruit Pie, Overturned Silver Tazza and Gilt Cup, and a Roemer, 1637
Jakob Briner Foundation
Ferdinand Bol, Portrait Elbert Spiegel, 1660
Jakob Briner Foundation
Ferdinand Bol, Portrait Elisabeth de Vlaming van Oudtshorn, 1660
Jakob Briner Foundation
Pieter Codde, Eine Wachstube
Kunst Museum Winterthur, Stiftung Jakob Briner
Pieter de Hooch, Interior with the Family of an Amsterdam Merchant, 1673
Kunst Museum Winterthur, Jakob Briner Foundation
Pieter de Hooch, Interieur mit Zitherspielerin, nach 1673
Kunst Museum Winterthur, Legat Dr. Fritz Rieter-Wieland 1970
Willem Cornelisz Duyster und Pieter Claesz., An Artist’s Atelier, after 1630
Kunst Museum Winterthur, Jakob Briner Foundation
Allaert van Everdingen, Skandinavische Gebirgslandschaft, um 1655
Kunst Museum Winterthur, Stiftung Jakob Briner
Bonaventura Peeters, Disembarkment of Dutch Ships before the Coast of Brasil, 1651
Kunst Museum Winterthur, Jakob Briner Foundation
Willem van de Velde d. J., Calm Sea, ca. 1675
Kunst Museum Winterthur, Jakob Briner Foundation
Jan van Goyen, River Landscape with a Round Bastion, 1638
Kunst Museum Winterthur, Jakob Briner Foundation
Samuel van Hoogstraten, Portrait Ferdinand Graf von Werdenberg, 1652
Kunst Museum Winterthur, Jakob Briner Foundation, purchase with a contribution by the Truus and Gerrit van Riemsdijk Foundation, 2012
Adriaen van Ostade, Interior with a Fisherman’s Family, ca. 1635
Kunst Museum Winterthur. Jakob Briner Foundation
Jacob van Ruisdael, Landscape with Waterfall, 1670/1675
Kunst Museum Winterthur, Jakob Briner Foundation
Emanuel de Witte, The Nieuwe Kerk in Delft with the Tomb of William of Orange, ca. 1650
Kunst Museum Winterthur, Jakob Briner Foundation
In 2014, the former Museum Briner and Kern closed and its exquisite collections were subsequently integrated into the Kunst Museum Winterthur. Hereby, the latter experienced a significant expansion through paintings from the Dutch Baroque. The splendid Old Masters produced brilliant works of various styles and genres that continue to fascinate us today. Paintings by Pieter Claesz are considered epitomes of 17th century still life painting, as well as of the baroque conception of Vanitas. In the works of the Briner and Kern collecion, painters such as Adriaen van Ostade, Rembrandt and Pieter de Hooch devoted the content of their works to secular peasant or bourgeois genre scenes. Further, landscape painting in various forms – including seascapes, waterfalls and Italian idyllic scenes – is represented through works by Willem van de Velde, Jacob van Ruisdael and Jan Both. Finally, works by Pieter Lastmann, Samuel van Hoogstraten, amongst other painters, are examples of historical paintings and portraits.