Hans Hartung (b. Dresden, 1904) was regarded as one of the founding fathers of French Lyric Abstractionism, the European counterpart of American Abstract Expressionism: a term in which the word

This vase, painted by Arthus Boesen (1870-1949), is notable for its unusual choice of subject. We see three military biplanes high above the clouds. So high that they almost fly out of the panorama at...

The switch to underglaze painting posed not only technical and artistic challenges but also a chemical one. At Royal Copenhagen, it was the chemical engineer, Adolphe Clement (1860-1933), who...

Wojciech  Weiss (1875-1950) is perhaps the most important of all early twentieth-century Polish artists. Like his contemporaries Mondrian and Kandinsky, he looked for new ways to integrate

The publication of Piet Mondrian: a Life gives us a radically different picture of world-famous painter and co-founder of De Stijl, Piet Mondrian. Gone is the impression of a lonely, isolated artist...

The De Stijl movement was launched in Leiden exactly one hundred years ago. The Netherlands is poised to mark the centenary in 2017 with a year-long programme of events under the title Mondrian to...

Helen Frik (b. 1960) has been actively collecting her own work ever since 1996. The Gemeentemuseum now shows a wide selection of idiosyncratic works on paper drawn from the resulting collection.

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The Gemeentemuseum’s new book Music for the Eye features a hand-picked selection of top items from the museum’s extensive music collection. It contains descriptions and illustrations of fifty-three