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.
Figures of the Laughing Buddha: we’ve been crazy about them in the Netherlands for centuries. They originated in China and have been in great demand in Europe since the seventeenth century. Potters
Rob van Koningsbruggen (b. 1948, The Hague) has had a major museum exhibition every decade since the 1970s. The last one – a grand retrospective – was at Kunstmuseum The Hague in 2002. This autumn, in
The museum is grateful and proud to present its latest acquisition, the 1911 painting Boys on Shrove Tuesday by Gabriele Münter (1877-1962). The work is presented as part of an intimate exhibition
Originally a member of the Arte Povera movement, Italian artist Alighiero Boetti (1940–1994) soon went his own way. From the 1970s he became famous for his whimsical, colourful embroideries which he
In art, a romantic landscape traditionally evokes melancholy and stimulates the imagination, with dense forests and inhospitable mountains interspersed by serene meadows, all rendered with technical
What would the Dutch flag look like if the three colours were divided on the basis of wealth in the country? In 1972 German artist KP Brehmer reworked the German flag in this way, highlighting the
In 1925 German artist Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart (1899 - 1962) gave two of his paintings to Theo van Doesburg in exchange for his Counter-Composition VI. One of these paintings, Konstruktion No
