Jheronimus Bosch exhibition

1 September through 11 November 2001

Museum Boijmans-Van Beuningen Rotterdam

As one of  the highlights of  Rotterdam Cultural Capital of Europe 2001 Museum Boijmans van Beuningen organises the grand exhibition of the works of the best known Dutch Master of the late middle ages, Jheronimus Bosch (1453-1516).

At the exhibition 18 paintings are on display. Together with seven of his drawings they make up the core of the exhibition. In order to show that Bosch kept on inspiring other artist throughout the centuries the exhibition also shows works of  Bill Viola, Salvador Dalí, Jörg Immendorff, Robert Gober, Pipilotti Rist, William Kentridge and James Ensor.

This unique exhibitions can only be seen in Rotterdam and is the only occasion on which  you can see all of his works together.

Among the paintings are top pieces from European and American museums like  Ecce Homo from the  Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie in Frankfurt, Extraction of the stone of fools from Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid , Saint John the Baptist from the Fundacion Lazaro-Galdiano in Madrid and Saint John on Patmos from the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin. They will be reunited for the occasion just like The Death of a Miser from the National Gallery of Art in Washington en the famous The ship of fools from the Musée du Louvre in Paris. The Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna lends out for the duration of the exhibiton Christ carrying the Cross . Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen itself owns four original paintings by Bosch, among which The pedlar and the Holy Christopher .