Anton Mauve (1838-1888) was a leading member of the Hague School and gave lessons to Vincent van Gogh. Mauve was regarded as a master in the portrayal of the silvery grey light and hues of the Dutch

Attracted by the life of the fishing folk, the emerging bathing culture and, above all, the magnificent interplay of light, sky and water, artists like Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch, Anton Mauve and the

The Maris Brothers
To coincide with the exhibition about the Oyens brothers, the Gemeentemuseum is organising a display of work by the Maris brothers. The presentation will show that each of the three

Towards the end of the 19th century, artists turned their backs on history painting in favour of landscape, previously regarded as an inferior genre. In France, the Barbizon School emerged as artists

The world-famous artist Vincent van Gogh is often associated with sunflowers and France but in fact his artistic roots lay in The Hague and the painters of the Hague School. This was a group of

Starting on 13 June, the Gemeentemuseum is holding an exhibition looking at the Hague School from a completely new angle. The show focuses primarily on the symbolism and meaning of the paintings and

In the nineteenth century people still lived by the seasons. Whether it was summertime or wintertime did not matter, many people simply had to work outside whatever the weather. Between 1860 and 1900

Publishing group VNU recently donated the painting River Landscape (1842) by Willem Roelofs to the Gemeentemuseum. This gift prompted the museum to organize an exhibition this summer of early works by