Considering the Collection

7.3.–25.5.2025
In parallel to the exhibition Wild Apollo’s Arrows. Klopstock Cult & Ossian Fever, a selection of the collection's holdings, featuring numerous highlights, continues to be presented in the Paintings Gallery under the motto Considering the Collection.
 
The exhibition concentrates on the Baroque period, presenting a cross-section of the core of the collection, the bequest of Anton Paula Graf Lamberg-Sprinzenstein from 1822. Other points of focus are the development of representations of space in early modern painting north and south of the Alps, the work of the Renaissance artist Lucas Cranach the Elder, portraits and self-portraits of artists in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Works by Hans Baldung Grien, Herri met de Bles, Hieronymus Bosch, Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi, known as Botticelli, Dieric Bouts, Adriaen Brouwer, Joos van Cleve, Pieter Codde, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Anthonis van Dyck, Antonio da Fabriano, Barent Fabritius, Francesco Raibolini, known as Francia, Heinrich Friedrich Füger, Jan Fyt, Luca Giordano, Pieter de Hooch, Ambrosius Holbein, Jacob Jordaens, Bernardo Keilhau, known as Monsù Bernardo, Johann Baptist von Lampi the Younger, Nicolaes Maes, Hans Maler, Nicola Malinconico, Martin van Meytens, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Rembrandt van Rijn, Peter Paul Rubens, Isaack van Ruisdael, Jacob van Ruisdael, Jacob van Schuppen, Christian Seybold, Pierre Subleyras, Jan Cornelisz. Vermeyen, Domenico Maria Viani, David Vinckboons, Cornelis de Vos, Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Jan Wildens et al.

Curated by Claudia Koch

 
Venue
Paintings Gallery
of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Schillerplatz 3, 1st floor, 1010 Vienna

Opening hours 
Daily except Monday
10–18 h

T +43 1 588 16 2201 
F +43 1 588 16 2299 
kunstsammlungen@akbild.ac.at 

Guided tours
Considering the Collection 
Every Sunday, 10:30 h

> Media Guide
Information on selected artworks in the exhibition
Considering the Collection