GOLDEN AGE. RUBENS BRUEGHEL JORDAENS
The Hohenbuchau Collection in Forte di Bard 2015/16
Four years after the extraordinary exhibition The Princely Treasures. Masterpieces from the Collections of the Prince of Liechtenstein, which starred at the Fortress of Bard in the winter 2012, the Fortress renews its prestigious collaboration with LIECHTENSTEIN. The Princely Collections. We have the honour of hosting, in the spaces of the Cannoniere, one hundred and fourteen artworks, representative of the Golden Age of Dutch and Flemish painting of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
The most conspicuous group of paintings on show is on loan from the HOHENBUCHAU COLLECTION, a private collection of the highest value, on permanent loan to the galleries of LIECHTENSTEIN. The Princely Collections in Vienna. This is one of the largest and most varied collections of Northern Baroque art assembled anywhere in recent decades, created with passion and care by Renate e Otto Christian Fassbender, shown at Fortress for the first time in Europe, and, entirely, for the first time in the world.
Every genre of the European Baroque painting from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is excellently represented: historical paintings, portraits, landscapes, seascapes, and, above all, still lifes, encompassing their many iconographic variations: flower pieces, banquets, fruits, animal and fish still lifes, hunting scenes.
A true journey through an art that, as never before, has been able to describe the ‘visible world’. With the aim of further integrating this rich offer, a valuable series of works owned by the Prince has been selected, confirming the bond between LIECHTENSTEIN. The Princely Collections and the Fortress of Bard.
Concept: Dr Johann Kräftner, Director, LIECHTENSTEIN. The Princely Collections, Vaduz–Vienna and Dr Gabriele Accornero, CEO Associazione Forte di Bard
Catalogue: The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue in italian end english (304 p.).
