The Maris Brothers
To coincide with the exhibition about the Oyens brothers, the Gemeentemuseum is organising a display of work by the Maris brothers. The presentation will show that each of the three

The Hague had a flourishing artistic climate in the early 1860s. Artists like Jozef Israëls, the Maris brothers, Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch and Hendrik Willem Mesdag moved to the city and started

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

Attracted by the life of the fishing folk, the emerging bathing culture and, above all, the magnificent interplay of light, sky and water, artists like Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch, Anton Mauve and the

Towards the end of the 19th century, artists turned their backs on history painting in favour of landscape, previously regarded as an inferior genre. In France, the Barbizon School emerged as artists

Publishing group VNU recently donated the painting River Landscape (1842) by Willem Roelofs to the Gemeentemuseum. This gift prompted the museum to organize an exhibition this summer of early works by

In the nineteenth century people still lived by the seasons. Whether it was summertime or wintertime did not matter, many people simply had to work outside whatever the weather. Between 1860 and 1900

Anton Mauve (1838-1888) was a leading member of the Hague School and gave lessons to Vincent van Gogh. Mauve was regarded as a master in the portrayal of the silvery grey light and hues of the Dutch