Gallery of Old Masters. Kassel

The album introduces the reader with the riches of the art gallery of the old masters - a unique collection of ruler of Hesse-Kassel, exposed to the Wilhelmshee Art Museum in Kassel. Pearl Collection - Works of the Netherlands Masters of the XV-XVI centuries.
The beginning of the formation of the art gallery of old masters belongs to 1509. Landgraph Wilhelm VIII has become the most gambling collector of painting. In 1748-1756, its art agents purchased about 800 paintings in the cities of France, Italy, Holland and Germany. At the same time, special halls in the palace were reserved for the gallery. In the late XVIII - early XIX century, the Kassel Gallery in the art level was considered the only rival of Berlin in the Protestant lands of Germany. The undeniable artistic value of the masterpieces collected by Wilhelm VIII and his heirs was the reason for their sharp dramatic fate in the era of Napoleonic Wars. Today, the Collection of the Gallery of the Old Masters has more than 1,200 paintings, of which about 450 are open to visitors. Pearl Collection - Works of the Netherlands Masters of the XV-XVI centuries. The painting of Flemish artists of the XVII century is a large share of the Museum Square: Peter Paul Rubens, Antonis Wang Dequee, Jacob Yordans, France Hals. Cassel Collection of Rembrandt is one of the most complete in Europe. No less interesting are presented in the Museum German and Italian Masters