Koos Breukel’s photo studio differs very little from the traditional photo studio’s that have sprung up throughout the world during the past 150 years of photography. His studio is a confined space

While in the early years, the colour palette of many of the underglaze paintings was limited to cobalt blue tones, over the years the Danish factories perfected the chemical composition of other...

This vibrant painting was created in 1895 by Emma Meyer (1859-1921). It depicts one of the women’s painting studios in the Royal Copenhagen factory, showing different stages of the decorating process...

Seven albino rabbits adorn this vase by Vilhelm Theodor Fischer (1857-1928). One alert and on guard, another unsuspectingly focused on the grass. Fischer and other porcelain painters who worked for...

Since the beginning of the 1980s, letters, words and short sentences have provided the artist Marc Ruygrok (1953) with the building blocks of his work. A typical feature of this visual syntax is his

In 2017 it will be exactly 100 years since the launch of the Dutch art and design movement known as ‘De Stijl’. The Netherlands is set to mark the centenary with a year-long programme of events under

Erik Andriesse died ten years ago at the age of only 36. An ambitious young artist, he made a deep impression on many who knew him during his brief career. This spring, a survey of his oeuvre is to be

The technique Rückriem uses most often is cutting and splitting stone along straight lines. Normally speaking, a sculptor throws away the stone that is cut or split off, and what remains is the