Museum Mayer van den Bergh

Geschiedenis

Museum Mayer van den Bergh is a museum in Antwerp, Belgium. The collection once belonged to art collector Fritz Mayer van den Bergh (1858-1901). The major works are from the Gothic and Renaissance period in the Netherlands and Belgium, including paintings by Pieter Brueghel the Elder.HistoryFritz Mayer van den Bergh, born in 1858, collected art for most of his life, making his most expensive and important additions between 1897 and his death in 1901. He was especially interested in art from the 14th to sixteenth century, while his contemporaries considered the Gothic and Renaissance art dated. This fact enabled him to create a collection of 1.000 pieces of mostly Northern Renaissance art. After his death, his mother built a neo-gothic house in the banking district of Antwerp between 1901 and 1904, as a museum for the expansive art collection.Collection, a late 15th-century or early 16th-century illustrated manuscript of 1412 pages, probably made for a rich Portuguese in Antwerp by Simon Bening, Gerard Horenbout and Jan Provost, Flemish miniaturists from the Ghent-Bruges school.Pieter Brueghel the Elder: Dulle Griet, ca. 1562Pieter Brueghel the Elder: Proverbs'Master Heinrich of Constance, Christ and Saint John Group, 14th centuryPieter Huys, The Temptation of Saint Anthony, 1577Jan Mabuse, MagdalenQuentin Matsys, Crucifixion'' a Pleurant, 15th Century.