The Ouborg Prize 2009
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
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.
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
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
Brightly-coloured, atmospheric, wild, pleasant, flat, hilly, figurative, abstract, two and three dimensional: landscapes take all kinds of forms in modern art. From works packed with drama and emotion
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
Holger Niehaus (b. Nordhorn, Germany, 1975) takes us to a strange world, where plants, fruit and animals congregate in serene still-lifes. Niehaus masterfully interweaves the traditional still-life
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
Bouwfonds has been collecting works of art for the last 30 years and now owns one of the foremost corporate art collections in the Netherlands. The exhibition in the Gemeentemuseum will concentrate on
Around 1900, Gustav Klimt began to draw inspiration from the work of Jan Toorop. Thanks to a unique collaboration with the Albertina Museum in Vienna, the Gemeentemuseum is now able to bring works by