Frans Hals Museum

The Frans Hals Museum is a municipal art museum in Haarlem Netherlands, named in the 17th century after Frans Hals, a company engaged in Haarlem portrait painter of the Golden Age.

The museum is housed in a former Altmännerhaus in the style of the 17th century and is primarily paintings Haarlem artists from the 16th and 17th centuries. There is another part of the city museum with a focus on Modern Art, Museum de halls called on the Grote Markt is located ( " Great Market ").

History

The collection of the city was created in 1581, following the acquisition of images from monasteries during the Reformation. 1862, the work has been shown in the former town hall and artists such as Claude Monet, Max Liebermann and James McNeill Whistler came as a visitor. Since 1913, the house is located on the present site, the Oudemannenhuis, a Hofje from 1609, which was built largely in the early 20th century in the style of the early 17th century.

Collection

The museum includes works of predecessors, students, colleagues and competitors as well as about a dozen works by Frans Hals himself Outstanding thereby the shooters and Regent pieces, given by the shooting guilds or the heads or head inside of charities in order group portraits.

Predecessors are expected Jan van Scorel, Maarten van Heemskerck, Cornelis van Haarlem, Hendrick Goltzius, Karel van Mander.

Among the students is usually one of Adriaen Brouwer, Judith Leyster and Jan Miense Molenaer.

Cornelis van Haarlem: monk and nun, 1590

Gerrit Berckheyde: market square in Haarlem, 1696

Judith Leyster: Merry Zecher