Tumult in the City
Just as the Hague School artists left their studios in town to paint the surrounding countryside, so the artists of the next generation set off to explore the life of the city. Starting in the 1880s
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.
Just as the Hague School artists left their studios in town to paint the surrounding countryside, so the artists of the next generation set off to explore the life of the city. Starting in the 1880s
The early years of the nineteenth century were a time of sweeping change in the Dutch art world. Following France’s annexation of the Netherlands, King Louis Napoleon Bonaparte (r. 1806-1810)
A fascinating exhibition about Dutch interior design. In the nineteenth to mid-twentieth century, Hague firms Mutters and Horrix were two of the leading furniture manufacturers in the Netherlands
The Case for Intuition is the first exhibition organised at the museum by Wim van Krimpen, who became Director of the Gemeentemuseum on 1 September. The exhibition is a personal statement by Van
American artist Alice Neel (1900-1984) was above all a portrait painter or, as she herself put it, a ‘collector of souls’. She painted the people around her, from her children and lovers to MoMA
Couturier Frans Hoogendoorn has been a household name in the Netherlands for over 40 years. He is inextricably linked to The Hague, a city associated from time immemorial with court life, the
A thumb’s up, a window through which a rainbow can be seen, a wooden fence. Using a mix of Pop Art and comics Morgan Betz (b. Amsterdam, 1974) creates his own unique visual idiom in which art history
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