Trailer: Frans Hals: Master of the Fleeting Moment

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In 2024, Berlin will celebrate one of the greatest portrait painters of all time: along with Rembrandt and Vermeer, Frans Hals ranks among the most outstanding Dutch painters of the 17th century. In addition to unconventional, expressive portraits of the Haarlem elite, he was the first artist in Holland to paint social outsiders as individuals in portrait format. With his extraordinarily relaxed and free style, this painter from Haarlem helped to inspire the Modernist painting like no other artist of his time.

Image credits:

• Frans Hals, Catharina Hooft mit ihrer Amme, Fotonachweis: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie / Christoph Schmidt
• Der Lachende Kavalier © Wallace Collection, London
• Malle Babbe, Fotonachweis: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie / Christoph Schmidt
• Lachender Junge © Mauritshuis, Den Haag
• Junge Frau („La bohémienne“) © RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / Jean-Gilles Berizzi
• Der Lautenspieler © RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / Franck Raux

Design and animation: Ta-Trung, Berlin