HAINZ, Georg
(b. 1630, Altenau, d. 1688, Hamburg)

Cabinets of Curiosities

1666
Oil on canvas, 115 x 93 cm
Kunsthalle, Hamburg

Georg Hainz was a German painter specialized in still-lifes.

Cabinets of curiosities (also known as Wunderkammer, Cabinets of Wonder, or wonder-rooms) were encyclopedic collections of types of objects belonging to natural history, geology, ethnography, archaeology, religious or historical relics, works of art (including cabinet paintings) and antiquities. This painting by Georg Hainz represents a special type of vanitas still-life.