Kaiserschild Art Defined / Sandra Sonnleitner (AT), Stefan Albl (AT)/Photo: flap

Kaiserschild Art Defined

Kaiserschild Foundation (AT)

Ars Electronica Center, Deep Space 8K
Wed 4. Sep 2024 13:30 – 14:10

Pieter Claesz was one of the most famous still life painters and had a decisive influence on the genre in the 17th century. In its current production, the Kaiserschild Art Defined project by Kaiserschild Foundation focuses on the oeuvre of Pieter Claesz. Aspects of the artist’s work and the historical context are explained using high-quality digitalizations of selected Claesz paintings.

Pieter Claesz Still Lifes

With the Kaiserschild Art Defined project, the Kaiserschild Foundation makes fine art accessible to the public by means of high-quality digital reproductions.
 
At the center of the current production is Dutch master Pieter Claesz, who had a decisive influence on still life painting and occupies an important place in the art collection of the Kaiserschild Foundation.
 
Selected works from Claesz’s oeuvre have been digitized in high resolution to provide in-depth insight into painting technique, structure and material. In addition, the project provides insight into the historical contexts and influences to which Pieter Claesz was exposed as well as the impact of his work.
 
In this project, the Kaiserschild Foundation is cooperating with Alte Galerie in Schloss Eggenberg, part of the Universalmuseum Joanneum, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien and Kunst Museum Winterthur.

Language: EN
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Bios

  • Sandra Sonnleitner

    AT

    Sandra Sonnleitner is Managing Director of the Kaiserschild Foundation, where she is particularly responsible for the art and research agendas. With its new project Kaiserschild Art Defined, the foundation is breaking new ground in art education as well as in making its art collection accessible. The foundation works together with art institutions and museums on the project.

  • Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/J.J. Kucek

    Stefan Albl

    AT

    Stefan Albl is curator for the early modern period at the Alte Galerie in Schloss Eggenberg in Graz, part of the Universalmuseum Joanneum. He previously worked at the Institute for Art History at the University of Vienna, the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. as well as at the Bibliotheca Hertzianam, Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome.

Credits

Stillleben mit Glaspokal, 1642
© Universalmuseum Joanneum / N. Lackner