Straight-Backed Chairs, Upright Citizens
One of the Netherlands’ first ever interior design stores opened to the public in 1900. Known as ’t Binnenhuis and run by H.P. Berlage and Jacques van den Bosch, the store and its well-designed modern
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.
One of the Netherlands’ first ever interior design stores opened to the public in 1900. Known as ’t Binnenhuis and run by H.P. Berlage and Jacques van den Bosch, the store and its well-designed modern
In the early 20th century, a group of artists caused a huge furore in the Munich art world. Calling themselves Der Blaue Reiter, the artists produced expressive, brightly coloured, lyrical paintings
How did people in past centuries cook, eat and sleep in the Netherlands, and where did they work and receive their guests? In short, what were Dutch homes like at that time? This autumn the
Comprising layer upon layer of fired glaze, the surfaces of Morten Løbner Espersen’s (b. 1965, Aalborg) internationally renowned ceramic objects are a riotous array of colours and textures. The
“Imagine the life of Frida Kahlo yoked to the eye of Edvard Munch, and you’ll begin to get the measure of this oeuvre…” (The Independent, London, 2003)
This spring the Gemeentemuseum presents the
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
The exhibition From Corot to Cézanne - Nature as the artist’s studio reveals an evolution in 19th-century landscape painting which was to prove crucial to the development of modern art. It will do so
Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) was a man of boundless ambition. He made himself one of the greatest masters of modern art and resolutely pioneered the path towards abstraction. In January 1912 he moved to