Showcase Exhibition | 05.11.2020 – 09.05.2021
Seascapes
SEASCAPES
| © Draiflessen Collection
Ehibition view SEASCAPES with nautic instruments from the Zuiderzeemuseum in Enkhuizen, the Maritiem Museum Rotterdam and the Deutsche Schifffahrtsmuseum Bremerhaven
| © Draiflessen Collection, Foto: Henning Rogge
Exhibition view SEASCAPES with Justus Danckerts' View of Rotterdam
| © Draiflessen Collection, Foto: Henning Rogge
Exhibition view SEASCAPES
| © Draiflessen Collection, Foto: Henning Rogge
Exhibition view SEASCAPES
| © Draiflessen Collection, Foto: Henning Rogge
Exhibition view SEASCAPES
| © Draiflessen Collection, Foto: Henning Rogge
Cornelis Claesz van Wieringen, The French harbour La Rochelle, ca. 1627/28
| © Draiflessen Collection (Liberna), Mettingen D 114 (Foto: Stephan Kube)
Allaert Pietersz van Everdingen, Sea View with Rock Formations, 17th Century
| © Draiflessen Collection (Liberna), Mettingen D 104 (Foto: Stephan Kube)
Jan Abrahamsz Beerstraten, Ships on Tempest Sea, 17th century
| © Tuliba Collection TD 0002 (Foto: Stephan Kube)
Willem van de Velde II, Maritime Perspective Study, ca. 1700
| © Draiflessen Collection (Liberna), Mettingen D 111 (Foto: Stephan Kube)
Frans Huys (after Pieter Brueghel d.Ä.), Two Galleys and a Man of War, 1560s
| © Tuliba Collection TP 0055 (Foto: Stephan Kube)
Willem van de Velde II, Dutch Frigate with Hanging Sails, ca. 1694
| © Draiflessen Collection (Liberna), Mettingen D 108 (Foto: Stephan Kube)
The bellicose rivalry between the leading maritime powers of England, Spain, and the Netherlands for supremacy in overseas trade was accompanied in the seventeenth century by the emergence of an independent genre of art: the seascape. The genre covers a broad spectrum of subjects, ranging from faithfully rendered ship portraits, dramatic naval battles and fleet reviews to everyday waterscapes and coastal scenes populated with anonymous boats to vistas that evoke the lure of the sea. Combining paintings, drawings, and prints from the Draiflessen’s collection, the “Seascapes” showcase exhibition will explore this fascination.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a trilingual publication (German, English, Dutch).
Hendrik Cornelisz. Vroom, Kriegsschiffe in ruhigem Gewässer, Ende 16. /Anfang 17. Jahrhundert
| © Draiflessen Collection (Liberna), Mettingen
Draiflessen CLIPS - Seestücke
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DAS Forum: 'Business matters are men’s matters!'
The role of women in European family businesses in the 19th and 20th centuries
The Draiflessen Collection would like to organise a scientific symposium to discuss the role of women in European family businesses in the 19th and 20th centuries.DAS Forum: 'Business matters are men’s matters!'
The role of women in European family businesses in the 19th and 20th centuries
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With “Seascapes”, the showcase exhibition will take visitors back in time to the sometimes belligerent, sometimes romantic, but always fascinating world of seventeenth-century seafaring.
