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The Dutch and Flemish collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Liberec was formed from the early 1960s onwards as one of the first specialized collections of Old Master paintings developed in Czech museums after the Second World War. Its starting point was Still Life with Books and a Skull (Vanitas) of 1629 by Jan Davidsz. de Heem, the only work by an Old Dutch master included in the bequest of the industrialist and collector Heinrich von Liebieg (1839–1904). Building upon this exceptional painting, the gallery gradually assembled a representative collection of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Dutch and Flemish art. It includes still lifes, landscapes, marines, genre scenes, and religious and historical subjects, with works by artists such as Hendrick van Balen, Jan Fyt, and Aert van der Neer. Several paintings originate from important Czech aristocratic collections, notably that of Count Joseph Thun. Beyond its artistic quality, the collection also reflects the history of collecting and the reception of Netherlandish art in Central Europe.
Lucie Česká, Curator of Collections (June 2026)
Collection catalogues
Dutch painting of 16th-18th centuries from the collection of the Regional Art Gallery in Liberec
Seifertová, Hana, Lubomír Slavícek
Liberec 1995