Replacing Mashkov
A successful round of deaccessioning, most controversially involving the sale of a painting by the Russian artist Ilya Mashkov, has enabled the Gemeentemuseum to purchase a number of important pieces
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.
A successful round of deaccessioning, most controversially involving the sale of a painting by the Russian artist Ilya Mashkov, has enabled the Gemeentemuseum to purchase a number of important pieces
Our image of Cubism is very different from that entertained by the Parisian public in the period around 1910. Then, Henri le Fauconnier was regarded as the leader of the movement.Today, Picasso
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
B.C. Epker (b. Harlingen,1968) produces intriguing drawings and woodcuts which lead the viewer to reflect on the contemporary situation. They tend to be landscapes featuring one or more human figures
The Gemeentemuseum has always collected glass and its targeted acquisitions policies have made its unique collection one of the most important in any museum in the Netherlands. This exhibition focuses
Juul Kraijer (b. Assen, 1970) makes elegant, calligraphic drawings reminiscent of Indian miniatures. All of them show more or less the same female model, her body depicted approximately life-size
His provocative actions of the 1960s caused chaos and violent indignation in the narrow-minded, religious, conservative Austria of the period. Günter Brus (b. 1938) has never lost the resulting
It started in the late nineteenth century: an unprecedented explosion of colour used in a completely innovative way. In France, the artists, who included Henri Matisse and Kees van Dongen, were