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The Collection of German and Austrian Painting is the most numerous of the European painting collections in the Museum, comprising about 500 easel works dated from the 15th century to the 18th century.
Through richness and diversity, the paintings are envisaging all styles and genres approached by the artists of this school, from the Medieval Gothic and Renaissance, through the Mannerist painting, followed by Rococo and Classicism, and to the landscapists of early Romanticism. Among the famous names, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Hans Schwab von Wertinger (Renaissance) and Hans von Aachen, Johann Rottenhammer (Mannerism) are to be mentioned. Most of the paintings are done in the 17th and 18th centuries, though, illustrating diverse influences active during Baroque period, either Flemish and Dutch (as in the case of Janneck and Brand) or Italian (as in the case of Schönfeld, Peter Strudel and Rottmayr). Various influences are to be observed in the manner of important portraitists as Paudiss, Kupetzky and Martin Meytens or in the still lives done by Hinz, Stuven, Berentz and Werner Tamm.
The landscapes done by Faistenberger, the paintings by Paul Troger and Caspar Sambach enjoy a particular personal approach. Few and of no importance are the works done in the 19th century.
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