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Rubens, Jordaens, van Dyck. Flemish Master Drawings

Now showing10 October 2026 – 31 January 2027€8

More than 100 Flemish drawings from 1570 to 1650 by 28 artists, many shown for the first time in fifty years.

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In 1616, the year Anton van Dyck joined Rubens's studio, he filled a sheet with figures copied from his new master. Rubens himself never signed his drawings or showed them in public. They were working material, and almost every sheet here was made to prepare a painting, a print or a tapestry.

This is the Kupferstichkabinett's first show of its Flemish drawings in fifty years: more than 100 sheets by 28 artists, made between 1570 and 1650. You move through it in chapters, from late-Mannerist forerunners to Rubens, Jordaens's bright colour designs and van Dyck's raw pen sketches, then Brueghel's landscapes, Teniers's village life and Vrancx's soldiers. The wall texts follow who trained, married and worked with whom: Teniers married Jan Brueghel's daughter while she was Rubens's ward.

Tickets are 8 euros (4 concessions), or 22 for every Kulturforum show, and the curator's German audio guide is included. Public tours run Saturdays at 14:00, and a Sunday tour continues into the Gemäldegalerie's paintings by the same artists.

Look for

  • Van Dyck copying his boss

    Look for the 1616 sketch sheet in black chalk and brown pen where the teenage van Dyck copies figures by Rubens.

  • Rubens's study for The Garden of Love

    A seated young woman raises her arm, drawn in black and red chalk heightened with white in 1631/32 for the painting now in the Prado.

  • Jordaens's girl with a fruit basket

    Around 1635 Jordaens drew a girl with a basket of fruit before an open door, with a pair of lovers, in black chalk and brush.

  • Teniers's view of Antwerp

    A small graphite view of Antwerp from around 1640, drawn quickly but closely observed, the way Teniers gathered material for his paintings.

  • Brueghel's river bank

    A gouache from around 1603 of a river bank crowded with boats where a canal flows out, by Jan Brueghel the Elder.

Good for

  • Cheap Culture
  • Going Solo
  • Nerding Out

Skip if

You want finished paintings: nearly every sheet here is a study for something else.

With kids

A free activity sheet with drawing tasks for children aged 6 to 12 is available in the exhibition.

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