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

This major exhibition at the Gemeentemuseum is intended as an ode to the versatile artist Constant Nieuwenhuijs (1920-2005). It will address every period of his oeuvre and every medium in which he

The Ouborg Prize is awarded in alternate years to a Hague artist producing work of both local and national importance. Named after Hague artist Pieter Ouborg (1893-1956), it is the City of The Hague’s

This winter the Gemeentemuseum is proud to present the first ever Dutch retrospective of work by Christian Schad (1894-1982), a key figures in the German Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) movement

Publishing group VNU recently donated the painting River Landscape (1842) by Willem Roelofs to the Gemeentemuseum. This gift prompted the museum to organize an exhibition this summer of early works by

The Sammlung Lafrenz from Hamburg – in which Minimal Art is well-represented – enters in this exhibition into dialogue with works from the museum’s own collection.

Works of art by, for instance, Sol

To coincide with the current highly successful Mondrian in Cologne exhibition – already attended by over 100,000 people – a new book has been published entitled Mondriaan. Collectie Gemeentemuseum Den