‘Artists have helped God create the world’

– Markus Lüpertz

To German painter and sculptor Markus Lüpertz (b. 1941), it is blindingly obvious that art far transcends everyday life. Wherever possible

The powerful oeuvre of Belgian Expressionist James Ensor (1860-1949) is a complete masquerade: a crazy procession of grotesque figures, masked faces, daubed female visages, skeletons and giant

Licht als kunst en kunst als licht. László Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) speelde zijn leven lang met licht in zijn kunstwerken, of het nu ging om schilderijen, sculpturen, collages, foto’s, films, grafiek, boekomslagen of theaterdecors.

Although Hans Bellmer (1902-1975) and Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) were both in touch with the Surrealists in the 1930s, the two artists never met. Despite this, their work displays striking

He was born in Cavtat, Croatia, lived in America, Paris, Zagreb and Prague, and spent extended periods in England and Vienna. Wherever talented painter Vlaho Bukovac (1855-1922) settled, he soon

‘A man should look as if he had bought his clothes with intelligence, put them on with care, and then forgotten all about them.’ – Sir Edwin Hardy Amies (1909 – 2003), founder of Savile Row fashion

First one-man show in Europe
This summer the five Period Rooms at the Gemeentemuseum will form the setting for an exhibition of the impressive porcelain busts and life-size porcelain figures made by

Bernard Buffet (1928 - 1999) produced more than 8000 works in the course of his long career. They ranged from still lifes, nudes and melancholy self-portraits to Parisian townscapes and landscapes