A Hague Bluff
Elegant and colourful porcelain marked with a stork. You might think this could only be porcelain from The Hague, but it is in fact a clever Hague bluff from the late eighteenth century. Research in
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.
Elegant and colourful porcelain marked with a stork. You might think this could only be porcelain from The Hague, but it is in fact a clever Hague bluff from the late eighteenth century. Research in
The confrontational art of Boris Lurie (1924 -2008) and Wolf Vostell (1932 – 1998) will be shown together for the first time in Art after Auschwitz. From the late 1950s onwards, these two artists
From 13 April the top floor of the museum will be given over not to our curators but to seven artists -– Philip Akkerman, Tjebbe Beekman, Berlinde de Bruyckere, Marcel van Eeden, Erik Kessels, Jan
Kunstmuseum Den Haag presents the first survey of all schenkers (‘pouring vessels’) created by Dutch designer Aldo Bakker (b. 1971). It was Bakker himself who coined the term ‘schenker’, from the
The permanent ‘Mondrian & De Stijl’ exhibit currently includes 10 models based on Theo van Doesburg’s ‘Maison d’Artiste’ model.
A hundred years ago Theo van Doesburg (leading light of De Stijl) and
During the second half of the 19th century, foreign artists flocked to the Netherlands. Favourite subjects were the Dutch fishing villages and their picturesque inhabitants, but the cities, provincial
We are inclined to pass snap judgments on other people. We quickly form an opinion on the basis of their appearance or behaviour. The beautiful but discomfiting paintings of Dutch artist Ad Gerritsen
Paul Wallach (New York, 1960) makes small-scale abstract sculptures out of fragile materials like plaster, driftwood and rusted metal. These are usually installed within an interior space in such a