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
Figures of the Laughing Buddha: we’ve been crazy about them in the Netherlands for centuries. They originated in China and have been in great demand in Europe since the seventeenth century. Potters
Wouter Dam has been one of the leading ceramicists in the Netherlands for forty years. Dam, who graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in 1980, has always related to the tradition of studio
Kunstmuseum Den Haag has owned a sizeable collection of work by Anton Heyboer (1924 – 2005) since the 1960s. The collection has grown over the years, and recent additions have included a bequest and
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
In the face of every movement that swept the art world during the first half of the twentieth century, Belgian artist Jean Brusselmans (1884 - 1953) constructed an obstinately idiosyncratic oeuvre
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