The Dutch Collection is not Complete book by Peter Hecht : Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. Softcover. English. See images for condition.

Format: Softcover

Author: Peter Hecht

ISBN: 9789082804829

Condition: Used - Like New


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About the book >.>.> Private individuals have always helped communities to build their public art collections. In the Netherlands one might even say that this began straight after the Iconoclasm, when Lucas van Leyden's Last Judgement was taken from the church that was its original home and was reinstalled in Leiden Town Hall in 1577-with the explicit permission of the descendants of the family who had commissioned it. The first Dutch museum owes its existence to the generosity of Pieter Teyler in Haarlem, who died in 1778. Rotterdam's municipal museum was set up to accommodate the collection that Frans Boijmans left to the city in 1849. Five years later, Amsterdam was given its first great collection of seventeenth-century Dutch art by Adriaan van der Hoop. The first museum of contemporary art was presented to the Dutch State by the painter Hendrik Mesdag in 1903. A private individual bought Vermeer's Little Street for the Rijksmuseum in 1921 and Abraham Bredius left his Rembrandts to the Mauritshuis in 1946. And who could ever forget Hel�ne Kr�ller-M�ller's collection, including some ninety paintings by Van Gogh, given to the state in 1935, or Sal Slijper's Mondriaans, left to the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague in 1971? But even more astonishing than this continuing story of individual generosity is the history of the Rembrandt Association, the Vereniging Rembrandt, which was founded in 1883. Supported by its members, it helps museums all over the country to strengthen their collections. Initially, its focus was on heritage, as when it managed to secure Vermeer's Milkmaid for the Rijksmuseum, but later its horizon expanded. In 1983, its centenary was celebrated by supporting the acquisition of two paintings by De Kooning. (LL)