Raeren and Rhenish stoneware on Dutch Renaissance and Baroque paintings
This autumn and winter, the Pottery Museum Raeren is presenting a very special exhibition: 80 paintings by the most famous representatives of so-called Dutch genre painting are being shown as high-quality reproductions in original size. The highlight is that all of them depict "Raeren pots" as they were used by the people of the 16th - 18th centuries. Of course, the museum will also be showing the originals from its own collections. The exhibition is also accompanied by a 500-page catalogue with more than 600 such paintings and extensive explanations.
Just as the so-called "Tupperware" can be found in the cupboards of every household today and is used for storing or transporting food and drink or for serving and drinking, it was impossible to imagine the homes of our ancestors without Rhenish stoneware in earlier times.
This particularly high-quality, durable and often richly decorated pottery was produced in huge quantities from the 13th/14th century onwards in various potteries in the Rhineland, e.g. in Raeren, and exported to the whole of north-eastern Europe. It was part of daily life, not only of the peasants but also of the rich burghers and merchants, the clergy and the nobility. Today it can be found in the collections of many museums around the world.
Pottery Museum – Castle of Raeren, Burgstraße 103 – B-4730 RAEREN Pottery Museum – Castle of RaerenRaeren and Rhenish stoneware on Dutch Renaissance and Baroque paintings
This autumn and winter, the Pottery Museum Raeren is presenting a very special exhibition: 80 paintings by the most famous representatives of so-called Dutch genre painting are being shown as high-quality reproductions in original size. The highlight is that all of them depict “Raeren pots” as they were used by the people of the 16th – 18th centuries. Of course, the museum will also be showing the originals from its own collections. The exhibition is also accompanied by a 500-page catalogue with more than 600 such paintings and extensive explanations.
Just as the so-called “Tupperware” can be found in the cupboards of every household today and is used for storing or transporting food and drink or for serving and drinking, it was impossible to imagine the homes of our ancestors without Rhenish stoneware in earlier times.
This particularly high-quality, durable and often richly decorated pottery was produced in huge quantities from the 13th/14th century onwards in various potteries in the Rhineland, e.g. in Raeren, and exported to the whole of north-eastern Europe. It was part of daily life, not only of the peasants but also of the rich burghers and merchants, the clergy and the nobility. Today it can be found in the collections of many museums around the world.
