How did the 18th-century connoisseur recognize a 'real' Rembrandt? On occasion of Rembrandt's 400th birthday, this volume reconstructs the Rembrandt collection in Kassel, Germany, and deals with issues of connoisseurship and the contemporary image of this great artist. German text.

The Tischbein family of painters, working around the turn of the 19th century, was a very productive one. This volume introduces the family and its three most famous members: Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Elder, a protagonist of early classicism in Germany; Johann Friedrich August Tischbein, one of the most sought-after portraitists of his time; and Johann Friedrich August Tischbein, whose interests focused on ancient Greek and Roman art, and who is most famous for his portrait of Goethe in the Campagna, Italy. German text.