Christian Art Appreciation: Pieter Pietersz.

Pieter Pietersz.,Bildnis der Familie des Amsterdamer Verlegers Laurens Jacobsz.(Detail), 1598 – Gemälde mit fünf Personen in schwarzer Kleidung, zwei Erwachsene, drei Kinder. Ein Kind hält ein Buch. Hintergrund mit Pflanzen und Säule.

Pieter Pietersz.’s early Northern Dutch group portrait of the Amsterdam publishing family Laurens Jacobsz. (c. 1590) combines Reformed piety with bourgeois self-representation. However, the scene depicted is not the family’s actual residence but an idealized setting for instruction, Bible reading, writing exercises, and exemplary homemaking.
Speakers: Dr. Stephan Kemperdick, Gemäldegalerie Berlin, and Prof. Dr. Johann Hinrich Claussen, Humboldt University of Berlin
The interdisciplinary event series “Christian Art Appreciation” generally takes place once a month—except during the summer break—and is a collaboration between the St. Matthäus Foundation and the Gemäldegalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. In accordance with the liturgical calendar, selected works of art are discussed by an art historian and a theologian and opened up for discussion.

Admission is free.No registration required.
“ChristianArt Appreciation ”takes place in the Kulturforum lecture hall.Translated with DeepL

Meeting point: Vortragssaal

Next date:

• Date Thursday, 22/October/2026 16:30 bis 17:30
• Venue Kulturforum
• Address Matthäikirchplatz, 10785 Berlin-Tiergarten