The switch to underglaze painting posed not only technical and artistic challenges but also a chemical one. At Royal Copenhagen, it was the chemical engineer, Adolphe Clement (1860-1933), who...

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

The publication of Piet Mondrian: a Life gives us a radically different picture of world-famous painter and co-founder of De Stijl, Piet Mondrian. Gone is the impression of a lonely, isolated artist...

‘I am clay’. This statement by the ceramicist Vilma Henkelman (1944-2023) makes it clear how much she identified with this material. Informed by feminism, Henkelman freed clay from connotations of

Franz-W. Kaiser (b. 1957) is leaving his post as head of exhibitions at Gemeentemuseum Den Haag. On 1 June 2016 he will take up the position of artistic director at the Bucerius Kunst Forum in Hamburg...

‘Outsider art’ is a collective term used to describe authentic works of art produced by off-beat artists who listen only to the voices within themselves. They do not consider the art of the past, they

This summer, the projects room of the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag will be the setting for the first museum solo exhibition of the Berlin-based artist Michael Kirkham (b. Blackpool, UK, 1971). Kirkham

The late 19th and early 20th century was a veritable Golden Age for French ceramics. In the 1890s, the position of France was unique: the country produced the finest and most forward-looking ceramics