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The Alte Pinakothek in Munich presents from Tuesday, 26 November 2024 the exhibition Nature into Art by the artist Rachel Ruysch. No other Dutch artist received as much praise during her lifetime as the Amsterdam painter Rachel Ruysch (1664-1750). Her biographer admiringly called her ‘Holland’s artistic marvel’ and ‘our artistic heroine of genius’.
Her magnificent, deceptively realistic floral still lifes with plants and fruit, butterflies and insects from the most diverse regions of the world were already considered sought-after and expensive collector’s items during her lifetime. Demand was so great that the Amsterdam painter could only afford to produce a few paintings a year. As the daughter of the renowned professor of anatomy and botany, Frederik Ruysch, the first female member of the prestigious Hague artists’ …
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Image above: Rachel Ruysch (1664-1750), Stillleben mit Rosen, Tulpen und Sonnenblume, 1710, oil on canvas, 88,9 × 71,1 cm, Inventarnummer L1317, The National Gallery, London, on loan from the collection of Janice and Brian Capstick © Private Collection
