Hendrik Willem Mesdag (1831-1915) was a leading member of the Hague School and the only one of that group to specialise in painting seascapes. As part of the Mesdag Year, this exhibition at the

As of today, the museum will officially be known as Kunstmuseum Den Haag. The new name makes it clear to the public what the museum is, and what it stands for: a diverse museum of art (Kunstmuseum)...

Painting was rediscovered in the exhilarating 1980s. Maarten Ploeg (1958 – 2004) caused a sensation as an artist and musician at the time. He was awarded the Royal Prize for Painting in 1982, and in

1872 - Pieter Cornelis Mondrian is born in Amersfoort. 1892 - Having obtained a number of art qualifications, Mondrian moves to Amsterdam to continue his artistic training at the Rijksacademie. He...

A new art for a new, improved society. That is what many artists and designers were seeking around 1900. After a century of styles that literally quoted the past, a new form language emerged, based on

From 13 April the top floor of the museum will be given over not to our curators but to seven artists -– Philip Akkerman, Tjebbe Beekman, Berlinde de Bruyckere, Marcel van Eeden, Erik Kessels, Jan

Kunstmuseum Den Haag has purchased The Pillowman (2004), one of the highlights of the oeuvre of Paula Rego (b. 1935, Lisbon). Rego painted The Pillowman after seeing Martin McDonagh’s play of the same...

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