In the spring of 1892, Isaac Israels (1865-1934) stood face to face with a beautiful snow-covered cityscape in the window of an art gallery in Amsterdam. It was a painting by George Hendrik Breitner

Gemeentemuseum Den Haag has purchased a key work by American artist Paul Thek (1933-1988). Thek painted the piece, entitled Farewell to Washington Square (Self-Portrait), in 1972, shortly before...

Have you ever been to Kunstmuseum Den Haag? Past the ponds, behind the yellow brick walls of the building on Stadhouderslaan lies an extraordinary world. Our building was designed to give visitors the...

A new art for a new, improved society. That is what many artists and designers were seeking around 1900. After a century of styles that literally quoted the past, a new form language emerged, based on

A hundred years ago, before the building that currently houses Kunstmuseum Den Haag existed, director Hendrik van Gelder was collecting ‘world ceramics’. He was keen to show the non-western sources

Vibrant colours that appear to have been applied yesterday, rather than four hundred years ago. Based on admiration and passion for the highly skilled craftmanship of the sixteenth to eighteenth

We have been asked how we view the controversy surrounding the fashion house Balenciaga, given the subject of our current fashion exhibition. Our exhibition is about the work in black of couturier...

Humour and craftsmanship go hand in hand in the work of ceramic artist Hans de Jong (1932-2011). With no concern for the possible functions of his objects, he modelled clay into fantastical creatures