{"id":83607,"date":"2025-05-23T08:42:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T07:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/?p=83607"},"modified":"2026-03-17T12:39:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T11:39:46","slug":"pieter-claesz-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/khm\/pieter-claesz-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Pieter Claesz exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/pieterclaeszsmall.jpg\" alt=\"Glass and fruit in a baroque still life painting\" class=\"wp-image-83598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/pieterclaeszsmall.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/pieterclaeszsmall-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Dive into the genre of still life and the genius of baroque painter Pieter Claesz at the Kunsthistorisches Museum (KHM).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Features 3 original paintings<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Plus hi-res digital versions<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8230;and insightful videos<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Runs Jun 17, 2025 &#8211; Mar 15, 2026<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>See also:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/khm\/overview\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1446\">Kunsthistorisches Museum overview<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/entertainment\/events\/exhibitions\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"37363\">Art exhibitions<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Still Lifes<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"351\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/claesz1.jpg\" alt=\"Baroque still life painting featuring a glass, bread, pie, lemon etc.\" class=\"wp-image-84671\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/claesz1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/claesz1-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(Still Life with Fruit Pie, Overturned Silver Tazza, Gilt Cup, and a &#8216;Roemer&#8217; (wine glass), Pieter Claesz (1597\/98\u20131660), 1637, oil on panel, Kunst Museum Winterthur, inv. G.2018.31; gift from the Jakob Briner Foundation, 2018 \u00a9 Kunst Museum Winterthur)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the lovelier kinds of art exhibition is where you get intriguing insight into the works or artist. Perhaps the techniques applied in a portrait, the meaning behind a motif, or the creative and historical context for a painting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So it is with the small Pieter Claesz exhibition at the Kunsthistorisches Museum: a chance to engage with three of his paintings and the genre of still life in greater depth than usual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Claesz (1597\/98 &#8211; 1660) was a master of the still life, known for the diversity of his tabletop subjects, his attention to compositional details, his deft use of light, and his adept portrayal of materials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a result, the artist&#8217;s works appear in the collections of such renowned institutions as the Rijksmuseum, the Louvre, the Museo del Prado, or the Met. And, of course, in the Kunsthistorisches Museum&#8217;s own archives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <em>Still Lifes<\/em> exhibition showcases the museum&#8217;s 1656 <em>Vanitas<\/em> alongside two further still lifes from Kunst Museum Winterthur and the Alte Galerie of the Universalmuseums Joanneum Graz.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/claesz2.jpg\" alt=\"View of an exhibition\" class=\"wp-image-84672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/claesz2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/claesz2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(View of the exhibition with the interactive console on the left \u00a9 KHM-Museumsverband)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All three illustrate the skills that earned Claesz his reputation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While we can admire the paintings as originally intended, high-resolution digital versions allow a far closer look and better access to the secrets of baroque symbolism and Claesz&#8217;s craft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The degree to which you can zoom in is quite astonishing, and the associated text explains why particular items appear and\/or what they might mean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Short videos also add further information on the artist himself and on still life as a genre within the cultural context of the times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We can easily forget, for example, that lemons were a luxury good in the early 17th century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The exhibition benefits from a collaboration with the Kaiserschild Stiftung and its <em>Art Defined<\/em> project. This project creates high-quality digital images of paintings for use as a tool in art outreach and education, thus making these paintings far more accessible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"tickets\">Dates, tickets &amp; tips<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Discover the secrets and symbolism of Claesz&#8217;s still lifes from June 17th, 2025 to March 15th, 2026. An entrance ticket from or for the Kunsthistorisches Museum includes the exhibition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Painters like Snyders, van Dyck, and Rubens from the same era and part of Europe as Claesz form part of the museum&#8217;s permanent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/khm\/paintings\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1487\">picture galleries<\/a>, of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The museum also has a special exhibition for another contemporary of Claesz for some of the same time as <em>Still Lifes<\/em>: discover the astonishing talent of painter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/khm\/michaelina-wautier-exhibition\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"83160\">Michaelina Wautier<\/a> (until February 22nd, 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to get to the paintings<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Find travel tips on the main Kunsthistorisches Museum <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/khm\/overview\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1446\">overview page<\/a>. The museum lies centrally on the famous Ring boulevard and close to the Burgring tram stop (lines 1, D, 2 and 71) and the MuseumsQuartier (U2) and Volkstheater (U2 and U3) subway stations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once inside, go up to the paintings gallery: the Claesz exhibition is just off Saal XII.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Address: Burgring 7, 1010 Vienna<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/u\/0\/embed?mid=1Ls0bHnAFYwdqHpA-vPBaMhgV1Fw\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dive into the genre of still life and the genius of baroque painter Pieter Claesz at the Kunsthistorisches Museum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83607","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-khm","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83607"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89267,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83607\/revisions\/89267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}