Colour Unleashed
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
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.
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
‘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
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
This major exhibition of the work of Co Westerik (1924) is the first of its kind in 15 years, featuring not only graphic works, drawings and paintings, but also photographs with a close bearing on the
The extraordinary work of Belgian artist Walter Swennen (b. 1946) is deeply rooted in language. At a very early age, he developed a great sensitivity to the spoken and written word. This was a
This autumn the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag is proud to present a major overview of the work of Jacoba van Heemskerck (1876-1923), an artist who made a major contribution to the development of Dutch