Horst Vey collection
... on Anthony Van Dyck, in preparation for the well-known oeuvre catalogue
Horst Vey (1930-2010) was director of the Staatliche Kunsthalle in Karlsruhe, Germany, and together with Susan J. Barnes, Nora De Poorter and Oliver Millar, wrote the famous work ‘Van Dyck. A complete catalogue of the paintings’.
Van Dyck documentation
The book is considered the absolute reference work on the painted oeuvre of Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641) and was published in 2004. Veys' complete Van Dyck documentation, which preceded the book, has been in the possession of the Rubenshuis since 2010. What's in the collection? Photographs, notes and correspondence relating to Van Dyck's first and second Antwerp periods. Even after publication, Vey continued to add new material to the documentation