In the windowed hall of its Baroque department, the Wallraf opens the doors to a dreamlike collector's cabinet: it is adorned with paintings by stars who shone brightly in the Dutch art firmament in the 17th century: Jan Brueghel the Elder, Jacob van Ruisdael, Willem Kalf and Gerrit Dou, to name but a few. The "Collector's Dreams" exhibition is the first to showcase the top-class Baroque paintings and drawings from a private German collection that the Cologne museum recently received on permanent loan.
In the windowed hall of its Baroque department, the Wallraf opens the doors to a dreamlike collector's cabinet: it is adorned with paintings by stars who shone brightly in the Dutch art firmament in the 17th century: Jan Brueghel the Elder, Jacob van Ruisdael, Willem Kalf and Gerrit Dou, to name but a few. The "Collector's Dreams" exhibition is the first to showcase the top-class Baroque paintings and drawings from a private German collection that the Cologne museum recently received on permanent loan.
