Wiebke Siem’s practice regularly takes inspiration from fields beyond visual art history, and her works often include references to (classical) music, such as in Die Böse Farbe. The title of the work...

The Ordrupgaard collection

The creator of the Ordrupgaard collection, the Dane Wilhelm Hansen (1868-1936), was a farsighted man: he collected works by the French Impressionists and Danish Golden Age

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

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

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 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

For Tomas Rajlich (b. 1940), the grid is the measure of all things. Rajlich’s starting point is usually a network of horizontal and vertical lines, which he lays down and then covers with loose

A presentation of recent acquisitions made by the Gemeentemuseum under the current director, Wim van Krimpen.