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.
Using only a pencil, Robbie Cornelissen (b. 1954) has filled three enormous sheets of paper with drawings, creating a work 13.2 metres long and 2.4 metres high. For six months, he challenged his
We are familiar with the clichés surrounding the emergence of Impressionism. The Impressionists are believed to have broken radically with tradition, bearing no resemblance whatsoever to their
A world without borders or constraints. People freed from work and able to play and travel at will. Constant Nieuwenhuys (1920 – 2005) expressed his ideas for a new world in one of the largest and
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.
The
Together with Jan Toorop, Leo Gestel and Jan Sluijters, the Hague artist Willem van Konijnenburg represented the face of Dutch modern art abroad between the wars. A retrospective of his work is
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
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
