Dagmar Hirschfelder Editor

Frans Hals (1582/84 – 1666) was born in Antwerp, the son of a cloth merchant. In 1610 he was accepted into the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke. Hals created hundreds of genre paintings, individual, and group portraits and enjoyed great public prestige. Despite his fame during his lifetime, it was not until the nineteenth century that he was enthusiastically rediscovered by the Impressionists and Realists.

Includes texts by Bart Cornelis, Erik Eising, Dagmar Hirschfelder, Katja Kleinert, Friso Lammertse, Justus Lange, Jaap van der Veen.