Maria van Kesteren
This winter, thanks to a generous gift, the Gemeentemuseum is very delighted to display a selection of works by Maria van Kesteren (b. 1933). Van Kesteren (b. 1933) creates objects in which material
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.
This winter, thanks to a generous gift, the Gemeentemuseum is very delighted to display a selection of works by Maria van Kesteren (b. 1933). Van Kesteren (b. 1933) creates objects in which material
American artist Alice Neel (1900-1984) was above all a portrait painter or, as she herself put it, a ‘collector of souls’. She painted the people around her, from her children and lovers to MoMA
During the second half of the 19th century, foreign artists flocked to the Netherlands. Favourite subjects were the Dutch fishing villages and their picturesque inhabitants, but the cities, provincial
Elegant brushstrokes with an instant appeal to the imagination: Chinese characters have something truly magical about them. Not only because of their intrinsic beauty –to Western eyes at least – but
Presentation revolving around a painting entitled Day by Swiss Symbolist artist Ferdinand Hodler (1853-1918).
The painting symbolises birth, growth, light and joy and shows a young female nude sitting
Turn of the century Vienna brought to life in a major exhibition of 20th-century avant-garde art, including work by Viennese artists Klimt, Schiele and Kokoschka and their German contemporaries Dix
Marc Mulders’ (b. 1958) studio is a barn in the middle of a field of flowers. As he stands painting in the doorway, bees buzz and butterflies flit around his easel. Mulders calls his garden ‘my own