Bayreuth | Staatsgalerie im Neuen Schloss

Gallery Hours:
01. April - 30. September | MO-SUN | 09.00 – 18.00
01. October - 31. March | TUE-SUN | 10.00 – 16.00

Closed 1st January, Pancake Day, 24th, 25th 31st December

Address:
Neues Schloss
Ludwigstraße 21
95444 Bayreuth
T 0921/75969-21

The lavishly restored Staatsgalerie of the Neues Schloss Bayreuth will re-open on the 27th July 2007 with a display of some 80 treasures of European late baroque painting. This branch gallery of the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen is exhibiting the masterpieces on the ground floor of the Residenz in three rooms that have been magnificently restored to their original state. The paintings, presented in highly decorative Rococo frames and embracing the period from the end of the 17th century to well into the 18th century, illuminate the passion of the Court of the day for collecting late baroque art.
Of particular interest are the paintings from the heyday of the Dutch school around 1700, when the »Golden Age« was drawing to a close. Among the exhibits are excellent masterpieces of historical painting as well as examples of highly developed still life works such as those by Adriaen van der Werff, Gerard de Lairesse, Gerard Hoet, Jan Huysum, Rachel Ruysch. They demonstrate how painters in the Netherlands continued to produce extraordinary works even after the death of Rembrandt in 1669. Further features include a gallery room devoted to international landscape painting of the 18th century and another displaying the detailed still life pictures and charming figures of the Flemish master Peter Jacob Horemans (1700-1776), who lived and worked in Munich.