Kremer Collection. The Kremer collection is an exquisite private art collection of George and Ilone Kremer. In 2008, this consisted of approximately 50 paintings from the Dutch Golden Age and Flemish Baroque painting. By 2017, this number had grown to 74. George Kremer was born in Amsterdam in 1950 to Jewish parents who had fled Germany from National Socialism. As a ten-year-old boy, Kremer visited the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam on a school trip and was deeply impressed by Rembrandt's painting The Jewish Bride, an image that has remained burned into his retina ever since. That special moment marked the beginning of his boyhood dream to one day own a Rembrandt himself. After amassing a fortune in the oil industry and his renewed interest being aroused by an auction of old masters in New York, theMaastricht art dealer Robert Noortman introduced him to the art world from 1995 and advised him on building an art collection of Dutch and Flemish masters from the 17th century. In 2017, the collection included 74 works from Dutch painting in the Golden Age and Flemish Baroque painting by, among others, Rembrandt van Rijn, Gerrit Dou, Frans Hals, Pieter de Hooch, Hendrick ter Brugghen, Gerrit van Honthorst, Michael Sweerts, Adriaen Brouwer, Abraham Janssens, Theodoor Rombouts and Frans Pourbus. The collection is managed by Aetas Aurea Holding SA. The collection is made public through loans to museums and through traveling exhibitions, which were shown, for example, in Cologne at the Wallraf-Richartz Museum and in Kassel at Schloss Wilhelmshöhe. In 2009, the exhibition Rembrandt, a boy's dream was on display at the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem. At the beginning of 2010, the Amsterdam Rembrandt House received a Rembrandt masterpiece on loan for two years. This painting: Bust of a Man with a Turban from 1627-28 was displayed in Rembrandt's former bedroom. In October 2017, the opening of the Kremer Museum was announced, designed by architect Johan van Lierop and accessible exclusively through virtual reality technology. For this purpose, 70 works of art, each individually 2500 to 3500 times, have been painstakingly photographed using photogrammetry, allowing visitors to view all the details from many angles. The owners of the Kremer Collection see this as the exhibition method of the future, where virtual technology makes it possible to reach the widest possible audience.
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