The AMAM’s collection of works on paper grew substantially beginning in the 1960s, aided in large part by a distinguished collection of more than 100 Old Master prints bequeathed to the museum by Max Kade and the Kade Foundation in 1967, 1969, and 1975.
John R. Spencer, AMAM director from 1963 to 1971, and Professor John Kurtz of the German Department brought the needs of the museum to Max Kade’s attention. He generously responded by giving an important part of his personal collection to the museum. The majority of the prints Kade and his foundation donated are by German Old Masters: sixty-three by Durer and others by Aldegrever, Beham, Burgkmair, and Schongauer. Fourteen Rembrandt etchings were included in this gift, as well, including the one seen here.
See more on the history of the collection in the exhibition, “A Museum for Oberlin,” on view until December 21.
Image:
Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669)
St. Jerome Beside a Pollard Willow, 1648
Etching
Gift of the Max Kade Foundation, AMAM 1967.42
