Pastel painter Jean-Étienne Liotard was one of the most sought-after portraitists in Europe in the 18th century.

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Jean-Etienne Liotard, Portraits of the couple Isaac-Louis and Julie de Thellusson, 1760

At the beginning of the 20th century Hodler developed into one of the few great independent landscape artists in Europe. For more than a decade he occupied himself with motifs from the mountain and lake landscape of Switzerland.

Ferdinand Hodler, The Grand Muveran, 1912

View into Infinity resulted from a comissioned work for the stairwell of the Kunsthaus Zürich, which took years to complete.

Ferdinand Hodler, View into Infinity, 1913/1914–1916

At the beginning of the 20th-century Paris wasn’t only the city of leading painters but also the city of great sculptors. Rodin, Maillol, Medardo Rosso.

Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Ascending Youth, 1913, and Woman in Deep Meditation, 1913–1914

The German painter Max Beckmann spent the Second World War in exile in Amsterdam. When the first ship set sail again he emigrated to the USA.

Max Beckmann, Woman Dressed in White Slip (Reading), 1947

Shaped by new knowledge of the mountains, which now were being explored and researched, with his unique view of the powerful natural setting, Caspar Wolf set a landmark in European landscape painting.

Caspar Wolf, The Lower Grindelwald Glacier with Lütschine and the Mettenberg, 1774

With his Biedermeier view through the window upon the industrial motif, Menzel characterises the industrial era as a revolution and a threat.

Adolph von Menzel, The Anhalter Railway Station by Moonlight, around 1846

With its almost completely abandoned spatial depth and its flat strictness, chalk cliffs on Rügen is one of Friedrich’s most radical compositions. At the same time, it belongs to the most colourful and most festive paintings of this deeply melancholic painter.

Caspar David Friedrich, Chalk Cliffs on Rügen, 1818

Jacob van Ruisdael was one of the most innovative European landscape painters. He belonged to the first painters who regarded the landscape as a mirror of life and transience.

Jacob van Ruisdael, Landscape with waterfall, 1670 / 1675

Still Life with Roemer, painted by Pieter Claesz. in 1637, is one of the highlights of our remarkable collection of Dutch Golden Age paintings.

Pieter Claesz, Still Life with Roemer, 1637

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