Hugo van der Goes – Between pain and bliss | Gemäldegalerie

Since 31 March 2023, the Berlin Gemäldegalerie is showing the exhibition Between Pain and Bliss. Hugo van der Goes (c. 1440-1482/83) was the most important Dutch artist of the second half of the 15th century. His works impress with their monumentality and intense colourfulness as well as with their astonishing closeness to life and emotional expressiveness. In March 2023, 540 years after the artist’s death, the Berlin Gemäldegalerie will celebrate a premiere: for the first time, almost all of the artist’s surviving paintings and drawings will be presented in one exhibition.

Fig. above: Hugo van der Goes. Zwischen Schmerz und Seligkeit, Ausstellungsansicht, Gemäldegalerie 2023, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / David von Becker