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.
Towards the end of the 19th century, artists turned their backs on history painting in favour of landscape, previously regarded as an inferior genre. In France, the Barbizon School emerged as artists
The Ouborg Prize is awarded in alternate years to a Hague artist producing work of both national and local importance. Named after Hague artist Pieter Ouborg (1893-1956), the City of The Hague’s prize
Publishing group VNU recently donated the painting River Landscape (1842) by Willem Roelofs to the Gemeentemuseum. This gift prompted the museum to organize an exhibition this summer of early works by
To coincide with the current highly successful Mondrian in Cologne exhibition – already attended by over 100,000 people – a new book has been published entitled Mondriaan. Collectie Gemeentemuseum Den
What would the Dutch flag look like if the three colours were divided on the basis of wealth in the country? In 1972 German artist KP Brehmer reworked the German flag in this way, highlighting the
The Gemeentemuseum Den Haag possesses a multitude of design drawings dating from between 1880 and 1940 and made by artists whose work is also well-represented in the decorative arts collection.This
The Moser glass factory in Bohemia is best known in the Netherlands for the unique pieces made there for Chris Lebeau between 1926 and 1929. But Moser, founded in 1857, has been one of the leading
