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The Knecht Collection

Flemish and Dutch cabinet pieces by Jan Brueghel the Elder, Hendrick Avercamp, Adriaen Coorte, Jan van Goyen, Aert van der Neer, David Teniers, among others. Cheerful genre scenes, magnificent still lifes and masterfully composed landscapes!

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Dutch Art in Zurich

The collection consists mainly of works of Dutch art and small-format paintings, most of them signed. The main emphasis is on the profane genres of masterfully composed landscapes and splendid still lifes, joined by cheerful genre paintings, portraits and, as an exception, three small panels with religious content, which are now joined together to form a triptych.

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Jan Brueghel (I), Entrance to a Village with a Windmill, 1603/1605 (?), Oil on copper, 18 x 25,4 cm, Kunsthaus Zürich, Permanent loan from a private collection, 2016
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Adriaen Coorte, Still Life with a Bundle of Asparagus, Red Cherries and a Butterfly, ca. 1693–1695, Oil on paper and wood, 25,6 x 19,8 cm, Kunsthaus Zürich, Permanent loan from a private collection, 2016
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Hendrick Avercamp, Winter Landscape with a Windmill, early 17th century, Oil on copper, 20 x 26 cm, Kunsthaus Zürich, Permanent loan from a private collection, 2016
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David Teniers (II), Three Peasants by the Fire, ca. 1645–1650, Oil on wood, 21,5 x 17,5 cm, Kunsthaus Zürich, Permanent loan from a private collection, 2016
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Magdalena van der Hecken, Two Studies of Insects. 8 Insects, 5,5 x 13,7 cm, undated, Oil on wood, Kunsthaus Zürich, Permanent loan from a private collection, 2016
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Jan van Kessel (I), Flowers in a Glass Vase with the Metamorphosis of the Silkworm, ca. 1660, Oil on oakwood, 40,3 x 29,5 cm, Kunsthaus Zürich, Permanent loan from a private collection, 2016
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Ferdinand and Karin Knecht, Photo @ Caroline Minjolle

Artists from the Protestant northern Netherlands as well as from Catholic Flanders are represented: Jan Brueghel (I), Pieter Brueghel (II), David Teniers (II) and Catarina Ykens (I), Hendrick Avercamp, Jan van Goyen, Aert van der Neer and Adriaen Coorte.

Just as the works from the Bührle, Merzbacher and Looser collections in the extension building represent private collecting as opposed to institutional collecting, the 45 works from the Knecht Collection illustrate this aspect in the Moser Building. A comparison with the Dutch and Flemish paintings from the Kunsthaus collection, especially from the Ruzicka and Koetser Foundations, which are also on view, is recommended.

A catalogue of the collection is available from the museum shop.

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Where can I find the Knecht Collection?

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