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The Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf houses a significant collection of Dutch and Flemish paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints and decorative arts from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries. A part of it traces back to the collection of Elector Johann Wilhelm of Pfalz-Neuburg and his second wife, Anna Maria de’ Medici (e.g. Peter Paul Rubens’ monumental Assumption of the Virgin). These works have been on long-term loan from the Düsseldorf Art Academy since 1932, as has the collection of Lambert Krahe. Krahe was director of the Düsseldorf Art Gallery from 1756 and systematically collected Dutch and Flemish drawings and prints. Works such as Dulle Griet from the Breughel circle, a sketchbook page by Maerten van Heemskerck and prints by Lucas van Leyden, Hendrick Goltzius and Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn come from his collection. Since the museum’s founding in 1913, many other works were acquired. The collection includes works by artists such as Abraham van Beyeren, Hans Bol, Karel Dujardin, Dirck Hals, Jan van Goyen, Gabriel Grupello, Pieter Lastman, Eglon Hendrik van der Neer, Johann Sadeler, Jan van Scorel and Anthonie Waterloo.
Kathrin DuBois, Head of Collection Painting until 1900, and Claudia Petersen, Acting Head of Department of Prints and Drawings (February 2026)