Beach Life – The Hague School and Scheveningen
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
Kunstmuseum Den Haag has a treasure chamber of over 160.000 pieces of art. Here we work on making the highlights from this collection available online.
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
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
Hague School paintings are full of the traditional beauties of Holland: grazing cattle, windmills and billowing white clouds. Weissenbruch, Mesdag, Gabriël, Mauve and other Hague School painters went