Beach Life – The Hague School and Scheveningen
Attracted by the life of the fishing folk, the emerging bathing culture and, above all, the magnificent interplay of light, sky and water, artists like Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch, Anton Mauve and the
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.
Attracted by the life of the fishing folk, the emerging bathing culture and, above all, the magnificent interplay of light, sky and water, artists like Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch, Anton Mauve and the
This winter the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag is exhibiting around 90 of Emo Verkerk’s paintings and sculptures.
Among the most important artists working in the Netherlands in recent years, Verkerk began
Isaac Israels preferred quite different subjects from those painted by his father, the Hague School painter Jozef Israels. Rather than concerning himself with the lives of fisherfolk and farm workers
The gold leather room and the Gobelin tapestry room of the Gemeentemuseum are about to undergo a complete metamorphosis. As are the Japanese room, the Louis Quinze room, the stucco-work room and the
A world in which all religions are equal: this is the vision presented by French painter Paul-Élie Ranson in his painting Christ and Buddha (c. 1890). The Gemeentemuseum’s acquisition of this work
This autumn, the Gemeentemuseum is holding an exhibition of 20th-century Spanish masterpieces: leading works by Picasso, Miró, Dalí, Gris, Fernández, Tàpies etc. seldom seen outside the walls of
This exhibition in the Gemeentemuseum’s Photographic Gallery is the work of guest curator Willem van Zoetendaal. It is composed of photographs by Frits Rotgans (1912-1978) and Leo Divendal (1947)