Hardly any other epoch in art history has been marked by as many profound changes as the Late Gothic was in the fifteenth century. Inspired by Netherlandish role models, depictions of light and shadow, body and space, became increasingly more realistic. Everyday life found entry into the arts. With the invention of printing, images and texts were distributed to an extent previously unheard of. Artists such as Nicolaus Gerhaert and Martin Schongauer became widely known and influenced the devel...

Occasionally, when something seems very familiar you lose sight of what makes it so special: Flemish Masters. From van Eyck to Bruegel sets out to counteract this effect and opens our eyes once again to the revolution that took place in the Low Countries in the 15th and 16th centuries that shaped the course of European art. In 48 lavishly illustrated analyses, Matthias Depoorter explores how painters such as Van Eyck, Van der Weiden, Massys, Bosch, and Bruegel reached unprecedented heights, a...

Von Renoir über Monet bis zu Gauguin - die moderne französische Kunst wurde Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts nicht nur von westlichen Sammlern geschätzt, sondern fand auch in Japan früh Anhänger. Das Museum Folkwang zeigt 2022 anlässlich seines 100. Jubiläums am Standort Essen seine herausragende, von Karl Ernst Osthaus (1874-1921) begründete Sammlung postimpressionistischer Kunst. Der eigene Bestand wird Glanzstücken des Impressionismus und Postimpressionismus aus der Sammlung Kojiro Mat...