Lecture: On patrons and art collectors from the 18th to 20th centuries.
Whether it’s the Louvre in Paris, the Hermitage in St. Petersburg or the Gemäldegalerie in Dresden – when visiting the great European museums, you sometimes wonder where all the treasures on display there actually come from. This is the subject of Dr. Ute Christina Koch’s lecture on Sunday, 3 November at 3 pm at the Falkenhof Museum. The Rheiner museum director and curator will introduce important collectors from the 18th – 20th centuries who, through their passion for collecting and their financial wealth, laid the foundations for today’s well-known public museums in Europe. They include aristocrats such as Frederick II of Prussia and Catherine II of Russia as well as bourgeois art enthusiasts. The lecture will shed light on the creation of large collections, the “connoisseurship” of the collectors and the structures that played an important role in the creation of the collections. In addition, the current handling of the collections will be discussed, which the speaker knows from experience and has helped to shape through her previous work at the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg and the Dresden State Art Collections.
This lecture is the first in a three-part lecture series on art collectors and collections, which is being offered to accompany the special exhibition “Rheine is now a city of art. 60 years of the Kasimir Hagen Collection” at the Falkenhof Museum. All three lectures are free to attend and admission to the exciting special exhibition with art from several centuries and previously unpublished photos and documents is also free on all opening days of the museum. Further information is available from the visitor office of the municipal museums Rheine on 05971 939 711 and in the online events calendar at Rheine.de/falkenhof. Image: Eduard Hau: The room of the Flemish School, from the series: Views of the New Hermitage, 1857. photo: hermitagemuseum.org