Presenting Arms
Beautiful objects in Chinese porcelain bearing Dutch family coats of arms give us a glimpse into the Netherlands’ glorious past as a seafaring and trading nation. The exhibition Presenting Arms has
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.
Beautiful objects in Chinese porcelain bearing Dutch family coats of arms give us a glimpse into the Netherlands’ glorious past as a seafaring and trading nation. The exhibition Presenting Arms has
The museum is grateful and proud to present its latest acquisition, the 1911 painting Boys on Shrove Tuesday by Gabriele Münter (1877-1962). The work is presented as part of an intimate exhibition
'The world is going to change radically.’ Henk Peeters (b. The Hague, 1925) said so more than once. The statement was an expression of his deep desire for a Communist society. It was not to be, but
Günter Tuzina (Hamburg 1951) has had close ties with the Gemeentemuseum for several decades. Over the years, successive directors have collected his works. As a result, the museum houses the largest
Damien Hirst (b.1965) is not only fascinated by death, but likes to draw on traditional art historical themes and examples to inspire his work. There was an opportunity to see this last year in the
This autumn, with over a hundred masterpieces of Finnish Symbolist and Expressionist art from the period around 1900, the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag presents an area of European art as yet undiscovered
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
Since her first exhibitions at New York’s Leo Castelli Gallery in 1960 and 1962, the work of the American artist Lee Bontecou (b. 1931) has occupied an entirely individual place in contemporary art