Out of the shadow across her face, Paula Modersohn Becker regards us with a steady gaze. She painted Self-portrait with Hat and Veil in the early years of the twentieth century, after a period of

‘This was the chance of a lifetime’, says director Benno Tempel of the museum’s acquisition of two seventeenth-century Delftware flower pyramids. ‘Very few flower pyramids have survived intact over...

Kunstmuseum Den Haag’s fashion collection was developed with a West European focus. But delve into our repository and you will soon discover common threads with other cultures all over the world. Hand

 

Two Copenhagen porcelain manufacturers – Royal Copenhagen and Bing & Grøndahl – caused quite a stir between 1890 and 1930 with their revolutionary underglaze painting techniques. In Great Danes Kun

Viewers have no choice but to engage with the work of Hague artist Navid Nuur, as he invites us to become part of something fascinating. As a result, his work sticks in the back of the mind, making us

43.1 White symbolises innocence and chastity and is the colour of supreme purity. Angels wear white robes, Christening gowns are white and, since the Renaissance, brides from noble families have...

‘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

42.1 For many centuries, yellow evoked negative – xenophobic and moralistic – associations. From the Middle Ages, it was used to identify Jews, Muslims and prostitutes. In combination with green...