Dariusz Kacprzak, "The Doering Collection", Szczecin: Willa Lentza 2024

Abstract

Dariusz Kacprzak’s book reconstructs the collection of paintings and graphic art belonging to Szczecin citizens Frida and Wilhelm Doering, representatives of the wealthy and influential city’s elites. The works of late German realism, which the Doerings collected in large numbers, became part of the most valuable part of the collection, which was finally donated to the Municipal Museum in Szczecin in 1925. As a whole, the Doering collection represented a significant selection of good, and sometimes even excellent, German art from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, including works by outstanding Munich realists, as well as representatives of the Berlin Secession, who paved the way for modern German painting.