B{L}OOMING Barocke Blütenpracht
In the organizer's words:
Roses, tulips, carnations - flowers are not only a feast for the eyes, but also a remedy, accessory and symbol of love, faith and loyalty. In the Baroque period in particular, artists celebrated the ephemeral beauty of flowers and immortalized them in their paintings, as the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum will be showing from 6 June 2025 to 31 May 2026 in its new annual exhibition "B{L}OOMING - Baroque Flower Splendour". With well-known and unknown still lifes, portraits and allegories from private collections and its own holdings, some of which have been newly researched and freshly restored, the Cologne museum presents the boom and diversity of floral motifs in the Baroque period. In addition, a special "flower trail" leads the public from the exhibition into the permanent collection to other flowering pictures.
In "B{L}OOMING", a novelty greens and blooms: around 1600, colorful bouquets of flowers and artfully woven garlands became a pictorial motif in their own right and quickly developed into a popular genre of painting. Flower painting began its triumphal march in Flanders and soon became extremely popular in many European countries, as can easily be seen from the origins of the masters shown: Flemings such as Daniel Seghers and Jan Brueghel the Elder, also known as "Flower Brueghel", Dutchmen such as Adriaen Coorte and Roelant Savery as well as the Italian Giovanni Stanchi and the German Peter Binoit are united in the exhibition. All of their works are just as colorful today as they were on the day of their painterly birth four centuries ago.
Speaking of blooming: a special exhibit in the exhibition is a freshly arranged flower arrangement, which is presented on its own pedestal. The artists of these works are florists who can apply to show their flower arrangements in "B{L}OOMING". All information about this campaign can be found on the friends' website at www.kunstfreunde.koeln.
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