Art Nouveau in The Netherlands
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
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.
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
From yellow to pastel shades of purple and green, Le Remorqueur (The Tugboat) by the French artist Auguste Herbin (1882-1960) is an ode to colour. The work from 1907 is a gift to the Kunstmuseum from
In the second half of the twentieth century, a small group of German artists turned their backs on the standard abstractionism of the contemporary international mainstream and deliberately chose to
‘Outsider art’ is a collective term used to describe authentic works of art produced by off-beat artists who listen only to the voices within themselves. They do not consider the art of the past, they
Since the 1980s female artists have transformed figurative painting. Their portraits address contemporary social problems and issues concerning gender, religion, racism and sexuality, and respond to
This summer’s exhibition in the print room at the Gemeentemuseum will comprise over sixty prints and drawings by Odilon Redon (1840 - 1916), one of the most important French artists of the period