Art Museum The Hague

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Art Museum The Hague

The Hague Art Museum ( Gemeentemuseum Den Haag until September 2019 ) is an art museum in The Hague . The museum, which opened in 1935, is located in the north-west of the city center, in the Duinoord garden district , not far from the Peace Palace and contains exhibits on the city's history, fine arts from the 19th and 20th centuries, numerous handicrafts such as ceramics , silver and furniture, as well as a fashion gallery with a collection of over 40,000 historical and contemporary clothing, accessories and trinkets.

history

Foundation and construction of the museum

The history of the museum began in 1866 with the establishment of an association to set up a museum for modern art ( Vereeniging tot het oprierter van een Museum van Moderne Kunst ). In 1906, the city ​​archivist Hendrik Enno van Gelder drafted plans for new accommodation for the city of The Hague's historical collection. In 1912 he was appointed museum director. In addition to the existing historical museum, he called for a museum for old and modern handicrafts, Dutch art and international fashion. He also wanted a separate showroom for large exhibitions, a room for public readings and a conference room. However, the outbreak of World War I in 1914 set the plans back to 1919.

Hendrik Petrus Berlage (1856–1934) was employed as an architect after the end of the war. In close collaboration with Van Gelder, he designed a design for a cultural center with a concert and congress hall, which, however, was rejected by the city authorities. After this failure, the project stagnated until 1927 when Berlage proposed a new, more humble design. Construction of the museum began in 1931.

The museum building, which was built according to the design by Hendrik Petrus Berlage, is located on the edge of the Zorgvliet Park. For the garden behind the museum he designed a pavilion, which is now named after him and which houses a brasserie. On May 29, 1935, after a construction period of four years, the Haags Gemeentemuseum was opened.

Later changes

In 1963 the Schamhart grand piano (named after its architect Sjoerd Schamhart) was added to the museum. Between 1995 and 1998 the whole museum was completely restored. A cellar was installed under the courtyard and workshops were realized between the buildings. The Hague Photo Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art GEM were established in the Schamhart Wing in 2002 . Both institutions are organizationally part of the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag .

From the end of 2013 to the beginning of 2014, the inner courtyard was completely roofed over, so that a huge multifunctional room was added to the museum. This new, fully air-conditioned room under a glass roof was put into operation during the 2014 Nuclear Safety Summit to hold press conferences.

In 2019, the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag was renamed the Kunstmuseum The Hague .

Collections and permanent exhibition

Modern art

The modern art collection from the art museum provides an overview of Dutch art since the beginning of the 19th century , supplemented by characteristic examples of international art from the same period. Collection elements are e.g. For example: The Hague School , Symbolism around 1900, The artists around De Stijl , Bauhaus and Expressionism . The museum owns paintings by artists such as Piet Mondrian , Pablo Picasso , Theo van Does , Bart van der Leck , Claude Monet and Francis Bacon . The museum bought a large part of Constant Nieuwenhuis's New Babylon works in 1974.

With almost 300 paintings from all of Piet Mondrian's creative periods, the art museum has the largest collection of this artist in the world. To a large extent it consists of a bequest from the Dutch art collector Salomon B. Slijper . The last, unfinished painting by Mondrian, Victory Boogie Woogie , has been part of the museum's holdings since 1998 .

There is also a collection of prints.

Arts and crafts

The handicraft collection consists of objects made of ceramics, glass, silver and furniture. Examples of these crafts are Delftware , ceramics from the Far and Near East, early Chinese and Islamic glass art, silverwork from The Hague and the Dutch East India Company .

Rozenburg porcelain

At the end of November 2010 the museum received two rare Rozenburg vases. These 75 cm high vases are decorated with colorful, stylized floral motifs and pictures of two country houses. They were commissioned in 1897 as a present for the 25th anniversary of a wedding. The former owner of the vases donated them to the museum because she had seen numerous works from Rozenburg in the collection. The Rozenburger pottery in The Hague was one of the most famous pottery in the Netherlands around 1900. Architect TA Colenbrander worked for Rozenburg between 1884 and 1889 and drafted many of the designs.

Style rooms

There are seven style rooms in the museum, in which handicrafts from the respective era and the respective environment are exhibited:

  • The gold-leather room (around 1600)
  • The tapestry room (around 1710)
  • Room after Louis XV. (around 1770)
  • The Japan Room (1720-1770)
  • Louis XVI room (around 1790)
  • The Disselhof room (1894–1897)
  • The courtyard room

Fashion

The art museum has a costume collection that provides an overview of the history of Dutch fashion. In addition to costumes, the collection also includes accessories, jewelry, fashion drawings and prints.

The costume collection began in 1951 with the private collection of artist Cyrus Voorbergh. From this collection the regional costumes went to the Dutch Open Air Museum in Arnhem and the fashion costumes to the Dutch Costume Museum in The Hague. The collection is a continuation of the Dutch Costume Museum. In 1985 the museum was closed due to budget cuts and the collection was transferred to the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag.

In 2009 the museum housed pieces from Christian Dior's spring collection designed by John Galliano .

Music

The museum's musical collection shows the history of traditional European musical instruments and mainly includes keyboards, wind instruments and plucked instruments. There are also instruments from other cultures and contemporary electronic instruments. The collection also includes prints, posters, drawings, medals and photographs related to performance practice.

Chambers of Wonder

The basement was previously used for the fashion collections. Since 2005 there has been a department in the basement of the museum specially designed for young people, the Chambers of Wonder . The rooms offer part of the collection and a large number of interactive exhibits. In 2013 the Chambers of Wonder reopened after a two and a half year renovation. In 13 different rooms corresponding to the museum's sub-collections, visitors can play interactive games to familiarize themselves with the collection.

The Miniature Museum, a collection of 2,000 miniature works of art by more than 850 different artists, is also located in the basement.

director

The art historian Benno Tempel has been director of the museum since 2009.

Web links

Commons : Gemeentemuseum Den Haag  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Constant New Babylon permanent te zien. Retrieved January 17, 2018 (Dutch).
  2. Gemeentemuseum Den Haag fourth 100 years Mondriaan en De Stijl. Retrieved January 17, 2018 (Dutch).
  3. betimmering Lodewijk XV-stijl (stijlkamer). Retrieved January 21, 2018 .
  4. Gemeentemuseum doft zich op met Dior - Art & Media - PAROOL. Retrieved January 21, 2018 (nl-NL).
  5. Zoeken. Retrieved January 21, 2018 (Dutch).
  6. Wonderkamers. Retrieved January 21, 2018 (Dutch).
  7. gemeentemuseum.nl - governance-and-policy

Coordinates: 52 ° 5 ′ 21.8 "  N , 4 ° 16 ′ 50.5"  E