Henk Peeters
'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
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.
'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
The Ordrupgaard collection
The creator of the Ordrupgaard collection, the Dane Wilhelm Hansen (1868-1936), was a farsighted man: he collected works by the French Impressionists and Danish Golden Age
In 1925 German artist Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart (1899 - 1962) gave two of his paintings to Theo van Doesburg in exchange for his Counter-Composition VI. One of these paintings, Konstruktion No
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
Our image of Cubism is very different from that entertained by the Parisian public in the period around 1910. Then, Henri le Fauconnier was regarded as the leader of the movement.Today, Picasso
The Gemeentemuseum has always collected glass and its targeted acquisitions policies have made its unique collection one of the most important in any museum in the Netherlands. This exhibition focuses