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100,000 Visitors See “Frans Hals: Master of the Fleeting Moment”. Extended Opening Hours on the Final Days of the Exhibition

17.10.2024
Gemäldegalerie

At Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie, the 100,000th visitors were welcomed to the Frans Hals: Master of the Fleeting Moment exhibition. Due to its continued high popularity among the public, the opening hours for the exhibition’s big finale from 1 to 3 November 2024 have been extended from 10 am to 10 pm.

Dagmar Hirschfelder, director of the Gemäldegalerie, and Katja Kleinert, curator of the exhibition, welcomed the 100,000th visitors to the Frans Hals exhibition. Ekaterina Grigoreva and Konstantin Belov from Berlin were greeted with a bouquet of flowers and the exhibition catalogue, and given a personal tour through the exhibition.

The show runs until Sunday, 3 November 2024. It is one of the most successful exhibitions held at the Gemäldegalerie. Dagmar Hirschfelder remarked:

We are especially delighted by our visitors’ enthusiastic reactions, which frequently express how they feel directly engaged by Hals’ paintings. The positive press resonance is also fantastic, with the exhibition being praised as fresh and innovative.

Alongside Rembrandt and Vermeer, Frans Hals (1582/83–1666) is among the most outstanding 17th-century Dutch painters. He is considered one of the most significant portrait painters in European art.

The exhibition is a cooperative project with the National Gallery in London and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Nevertheless, the exhibition organisers in Berlin have developed their very own concept. Curator Katja Kleinert explains:

To point out the uniqueness of Frans Hals, we also show works by his contemporaries, competitors, students and successors. Because it is only by comparison that Hals’ exceptional talent becomes so apparent. The same can be said for the juxtaposition of his works with those by modern painters, for example, Corinth, Leibl and Liebermann, for whom Hals’ oeuvre was an important source of inspiration.

The exhibition features some 75 works, of which around 50 paintings are by Frans Hals, including prominent loans from the Netherlands, France, Great Britain, the USA and Canada.

Extended Opening Hours on the Final Days of the Exhibition

Due to the show’s incredible popularity, the Gemäldegalerie is extending its opening hours on the last weekend of the exhibition: From Friday, 1 to Sunday, 3 November 2024, the exhibition is open daily from 10 am to 10 pm.

Catalogue

The exhibition catalogue, available at the museum price of €39 in English, is sold in the on-site shop.