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.
Long before spiritual and esoteric movements like new age and mindfulness became popular in the West, the open-minded Alexej von Jawlensky (1864-1941) combined the best of different religious
A man with a determined expression, his eyes turned away from the camera. For many of us, it is this image that springs to mind when we think of the Surinamese anti-colonial writer and resistance
The summer exhibition in the Fashion Gallery of the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag features top examples of 20th-century fashion design. Items from the museum’s costume collection are used to highlight the
Like some latter-day Leonardo da Vinci, Georges Vantongerloo focused in his work on the relationship between the human body and the cosmos. In the art world there is much loose talk of achieving a
Patriotism and heroism were prominent in Dutch military paintings until late in the 19th century. The exhibition Atten-SHUN! shows how the genre changed radically around 1880 under the influence of
Every picture tells a story. Why would a person spend his whole life photographing nothing but women’s legs? Who was the mysterious woman known as Taï Aagen-Moro? What’s in Daguerre’s soup? And were
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
