During the ongoing renovation of the museum building, the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe is presenting a selection from its collection at the ZKM (Center for Art and Media). Masterpieces by Aelbrecht Bouts, Jan van Hemessen, Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Jacob Jordaens, Clara Peeters, Rembrandt, Pieter de Hooch, Caspar Netscher, Rachel Ruysch, and others are currently on view there.
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With around 500 paintings, the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe holds a comprehensive and long-established collection of Old Netherlandish, Dutch, and Flemish painting dating from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century. In addition, the museum’s print room preserves a substantial number of works on paper, primarily prints from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
This core area of the collection was already decisively shaped in the eighteenth century by Margravine Caroline Luise of Baden. Alongside contemporary French painting, she focused in particular on works by the great Flemish artists of the Baroque period and the Dutch masters of the seventeenth century. Her preference for genre scenes, landscapes, and still lifes continues to define the profile of the collection to this day.
Over the years, the collection has repeatedly been expanded through high-quality acquisitions. Most recently, in 2023, a generous bequest brought an exquisite selection of works by artists such as Jan Provost, Jan Gossaert, Peter Paul Rubens, Anthonis van Dyck, David Teniers the Younger, Meindert Hobbema, and Adriaen Coorte into the collection.
Maike Hohn, Curator of Old Master Paintings (February 2026)