Print Room: Ben Akkerman
The Gemeentemuseum’s collection of twentieth-century Dutch drawings has recently been enriched by a donation of 50 drawings by Ben Akkerman (1920). In addition, the artist has donated 12 of his early
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.
The Gemeentemuseum’s collection of twentieth-century Dutch drawings has recently been enriched by a donation of 50 drawings by Ben Akkerman (1920). In addition, the artist has donated 12 of his early
One of the Netherlands’ first ever interior design stores opened to the public in 1900. Known as ’t Binnenhuis and run by H.P. Berlage and Jacques van den Bosch, the store and its well-designed modern
The Gemeentemuseum has always collected glass and its targeted acquisitions policies have made its unique collection one of the most important in any museum in the Netherlands. This exhibition focuses
‘Done! Straight in the shop with it. (…) A hundred and fifty guilders.’ In his yard, at the home he built with his own hands, among his five wives, a man wearing white make-up frantically commits an
In the brief period between 1885 and the outbreak of war in 1914 painting in the Low countries experienced a modern Renaissance. Colour was liberated from the chains of visual reality. Suddenly, grass
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