CoBrA and Chaissac
In 1961 Gaston Chaissac (1910-1964) exhibited work at Iris Clert’s renowned Paris gallery. It was enthusiastically received by all. The CoBrA artists (no longer a group by then) were the most excited
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.
In 1961 Gaston Chaissac (1910-1964) exhibited work at Iris Clert’s renowned Paris gallery. It was enthusiastically received by all. The CoBrA artists (no longer a group by then) were the most excited
From his early days in the sixties, Jan Jansen (1941) has evolved into a shoe designer of world stature. International publications on contemporary shoe design contain many illustrations of his work
The permanent ‘Mondrian & De Stijl’ exhibit currently includes 10 models based on Theo van Doesburg’s ‘Maison d’Artiste’ model.
A hundred years ago Theo van Doesburg (leading light of De Stijl) and
It all went wrong on Friday the 13th in March 2020: artist Nalini Malani (b. 1946, Karachi, formerly undivided India) had to travel from Barcelona to Amsterdam. The scale and severity of the COVID-19
Work by American artist Gary Lang (b. Los Angeles, 1950) has been seen earlier at the Gemeentemuseum. He had a show in the museum’s Projects Gallery in 1996 and, more recently, several of his
In the spring of 1892, Isaac Israels (1865-1934) stood face to face with a beautiful snow-covered cityscape in the window of an art gallery in Amsterdam. It was a painting by George Hendrik Breitner
Since her first exhibitions at New York’s Leo Castelli Gallery in 1960 and 1962, the work of the American artist Lee Bontecou (b. 1931) has occupied an entirely individual place in contemporary art
Iranian-born artist and essayist Sam Samiee (b. 1988, Teheran) makes installations consisting of multiple paintings. He combines this two-dimensional medium with spatial objects, testing the potential