Bentheim Castle
Jacob van Ruisdael
Masterpiece from the golden age
Jacob Isaackszoon Ruisdael was born in Haarlem in 1628 and died in Amsterdam in 1682.
He was a successful Dutch landscape painter and widely traveled artist. Around 1650, he also traveled to the county of Bentheim.
In the following years, he painted several views of Bentheim Castle in his studio at home: true to detail and yet alienated with elements from sketches from other journeys.
No two of his paintings are alike, even if they depict the same motif.
Ruisdael’s castle painting, which dates from around 1655 and can be seen in Bentheim Castle, was only rediscovered in 1988. Until then it was considered lost. The district bought it at auction and exhibited it for 23 years in Frenswegen Abbey in Nordhorn. It was only in 2012, as part of the “raumsichten” art campaign, that it was returned to the place it was intended for: Bentheim Castle. The painting is the property of the Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung.
Other of his paintings of Burg Bentheim are exhibited in the Reichsmuseum Amsterdam and the National Gallery Dublin , among others.
Ruisdael’s castle painting, which dates from around 1655 and can be seen in Bentheim Castle, was only rediscovered in 1988. Until then it was considered lost. The district bought it at auction and exhibited it for 23 years in Frenswegen Abbey in Nordhorn. It was only in 2012, as part of the “raumsichten” art campaign, that it was returned to the place it was intended for: Bentheim Castle. The painting is the property of the Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung.
Other of his paintings of Burg Bentheim are exhibited in the Reichsmuseum Amsterdam and the National Gallery Dublin , among others.
- Artists
Jacob van Ruisdael,
Dutch painter
- Year of origin
about 1655
- Technology
Oil on canvas
