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New exhibitions

Team of Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria

Now on show at Alte Galerie, Eggenberg Castle, Graz:

30 old masters from the Golden Age of Dutch painting from a

private collection will be exhibited for the next 30 years

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Over 30 paintings, mainly Dutch Masters from the 17 Alte Galerie has taken this permanent loan–as well as
cent., the much-vaunted “Golden Age”, are now on show the bicentenary of its founding–as an opportunity to re-
at the Alte Galerie, based on a long-term loan from the arrange the gallery, to be presented in 2019.
Dr. Hans Riegel Collection. This is a extremely valuable
addition to its collection of Old Masters, something rare- This generous gesture on the part of a private patron
ly seen these days on this scale. allows us to explore Rembrandt’s Dutch contemporaries
in Graz too, on a much broader basis than hitherto the
The Alte Galerie’s collection goes back to the “Ständis- case. We are in debt to them for our notion of paint-
che Bildergalerie” as first mentioned in 1819. Now the ing, still valid today, as an art form that has expanded

Pieter Claesz (1596/1597 Berchem-1661 Haarlem): Breakfast Piece, 1642. Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum

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