Brightly-coloured, atmospheric, wild, pleasant, flat, hilly, figurative, abstract, two and three dimensional: landscapes take all kinds of forms in modern art. From works packed with drama and emotion

Royal Copenhagen painter Stephan Ussing (1868-1958) is known for his depictions of swans. This choice of subject is understandable: unpainted porcelain comes out of the kiln perfectly white, a feature...

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...

Flaming June, the glorious canvas painted by Frederic Leighton (1830-1896) in around 1895, and five fabulous pictures by Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898) are the highlights of an extraordinary

The Maris Brothers
To coincide with the exhibition about the Oyens brothers, the Gemeentemuseum is organising a display of work by the Maris brothers. The presentation will show that each of the three

His provocative actions of the 1960s caused chaos and violent indignation in the narrow-minded, religious, conservative Austria of the period. Günter Brus (b. 1938) has never lost the resulting

It started in the late nineteenth century: an unprecedented explosion of colour used in a completely innovative way. In France, the artists, who included Henri Matisse and Kees van Dongen, were

B.C. Epker (b. Harlingen,1968) produces intriguing drawings and woodcuts which lead the viewer to reflect on the contemporary situation. They tend to be landscapes featuring one or more human figures