The Golden Age of Dutch Painting

Pieter Claesz
Still Life with Fruit Pie, Overturned Silver Tazza and Gilt Cup, and a Roemer, 1637
Kunst Museum Winterthur, Jakob Briner Foundation

Ferdinand Bol
Portrait Elbert Spiegel, 1660
Kunst Museum Winterthur, Jakob Briner Foundation

Ferdinand Bol
Portrait Elisabeth de Vlaming van Oudtshorn, 1660
Kunst Museum Winterthur, Jakob Briner Foundation

Pieter Codde
Eine Wachstube, um 1630
Kunst Museum Winterthur, Jakob Briner Foundation

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 and Pieter Claesz.
An Artist’s Atelier, after 1630
Kunst Museum Winterthur, Jakob Briner Foundation

Allaert van Everdingen
Skandinavische Gebirgslandschaft, um 1655
Kunst Museum Winterthur, Jakob Briner Foundation

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.