The Mayer van den Bergh Museum is a museum located in Antwerp, Belgium. The collection contained therein belonged to the art collector Fritz Mayer van den Bergh. The most important works kept by the museum concern Dutch and Belgian Gothic and Renaissance art, among which works by Pieter Bruegel the Elder stand out.
The Mayer van den Bergh Museum immerses you in a very special, intimate and familiar atmosphere. You will be introduced to a wonderful collection and the man who collected them himself. And with Pieter Bruegel's very famous Mad Griet.
Fritz Mayer van den Bergh was the art collector who collected all the works of the museum: he made the most important acquisitions between 1897 and 1901, the year of his death. The mother, between 1901 and 1904, had a Neo-Gothic style house built in Antwerp to become a museum where all the works collected by her son could be displayed.
The museum contains about 1000 works, mainly of the Renaissance art of the Nordic countries, among which to remember:
-Twelve proverbs, 1558
-Mad Margherita, 1561
- Pieter Huys, Temptation of Saint Anthony
- Jan Mabuse, Magdalene
- Quentin Matsys, Crucifixion
Mayer Van Den Bergh Museum
Address: Lange Gasthuisstraat 19, 2000
Phone: +32 3 338 81 88
Site:
https://www.museummayervandenbergh.be/nlLocation inserted by
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