This wall plate, painted by Christian Benjamin Olsen (1873-1935) for Royal Copenhagen, was a wedding gift for the Danish king. The entwined initials C and A refer to King Christian X and his wife...

This early wall plate from 1890 by Carl Frederik Liisberg (1860-1909) shows how this painter experimented with soft contours and blended colours. Bleeding of the painted image during the firing at...

Norbert Schwontkowski (1949-2013) is perhaps one of Germany’s best kept secrets. Yet these days his poetic work is gradually attracting more and more admirers outside his homeland. Inspired by Zen

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 hundred years ago, a group of avant-garde young artists working in the north-eastern Dutch province of Groningen founded a collective known as De Ploeg (‘The Plough’).

The group – including Jan

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

Discover the various activities for children in the Kunstmuseum!

The De Stijl movement was launched in Leiden exactly one hundred years ago. The Netherlands is poised to mark the centenary in 2017 with a year-long programme of events under the title Mondrian to...