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.
One is a Minimalist artist who has reduced painting to repeated, regularly spaced imprints of a n° 50 paintbrush, the other a conceptual artist who began his career as a scientist. Niele Toroni (b
In the brief period between 1885 and the outbreak of war in 1914 painting in the Low countries experienced a modern Renaissance. Colour was liberated from the chains of visual reality. Suddenly, grass
German artist Hanns Schimansky (b. 1949) produces highly aesthetic, abstract drawings which are widely appreciated both in his native land and abroad. Using pencil, Indian ink or chalk, he works on
23 November 2019 to 22 March 2020
‘Meticulous, varied and intense work of great quality. Work that stays with you’: the glowing assessment in the jury report for the Ouborg Prize 2019. They refer
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
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
Swiss artist Martin Disler is being given a free hand to exhibit his work in the museum’s Treasure Trove.
