Princessehof

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Building of the Ceramic Museum Princessehof in Leeuwarden
Dutch ceramics in the Princessehof Ceramic Museum
Chinese porcelain in the Princessehof ceramic museum

The Princessehof is a museum for ceramics and porcelain in the Dutch city of Leeuwarden . The museum is located in a baroque city ​​palace from the 17th century, which previously served as the residence of Princess Marie Luise of Hessen-Kassel . In 1917 the notary and art collector Nanne Ottema founded the Princessehof Museum in this building. The collection of Asian ceramics and porcelain brought together with his wife Grietje Kingma is part of the museum's permanent exhibition on loan from the Ottema Kingma Foundation. Another focus of the museum are works of the Dutch Art Nouveau and Art Deco as well as contemporary objects, which can be seen in the department of European porcelains and ceramics.

museum

The name of the baroque building, built in 1693, goes back to Marie Luise von Hessen-Kassel , wife of Prince Johann Wilhelm Friso von Nassau-Dietz , who ruled Friesland , Groningen and Drenthe as governor. After the death of her husband, she took over this office as regent for her son for several years. In 1731 she acquired the building in Grote Kerkstraat, which she expanded into the Princessehof. Your ceramic collection forms the basis of today's museum and can be seen in the Nassaukamer , a period room in the Baroque style. The building was later divided into three houses. The graphic artist MC Escher was born in the middle house in 1898 . In 1917 the notary Nanne Ottema founded the ceramics museum in the Princessehof, which has since shown its porcelain and ceramics collection. In addition, Ottema, who himself wrote a handbook on collecting Chinese ceramics, left the museum's specialist library with around 15,000 books. The museum also regularly organizes temporary exhibitions.

collection

The collection has grown continuously to around 35,000 pieces since the museum was founded. The oldest exhibits are Chinese ceramics from around 3,000 BC. Overall, the Chinese porcelain department is one of the highlights of the museum. In particular, porcelain from the famille rose , famille verte and famille noire from the Qing dynasty can be seen . Other objects in the Asian department come from Japan and the former colony of the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia ). Islamic ceramics from Iran , Syria and Turkey are another area of ​​the museum's collection.

The European department of the museum is also diverse. In addition to English Wedgwood ceramics , Italian majolica and Meissen porcelain , you will find objects from Spain, France and Portugal. A large part of this department takes up porcelain from the Netherlands. In addition to typical Delftware , pieces from Dutch Art Nouveau and Art Deco are on display here, as well as contemporary works by Karel Appel , Bart van der Leck and Lucebert . The museum also shows the original furnishings of the workshop of the ceramic artist Jan van der Vaart (1931–2000). In the department for modern handicrafts you can still find objects by Pierre Alechinsky , AR Penck and Pablo Picasso .

literature

  • Jacob Jetzes Kalma: Nanne Ottema, Aartsverzamelaar en museumbouwer . Ottema-Kingma Stichting, Leeuwarden 1957.
  • Hendrik Thijs van Veen: Nanne Ottema, een kleurrijk verzamelaar . Van Wijnen, Franeker 1999, ISBN 90-5194-197-8 .

Web links

Commons : Princessehof  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. "De wereldberoemde graficus Escher was born in 1898 in het Princessehof en heeft tot zijn vijfde jaar in het stadspaleis gewoond." See museum homepage: Archived copy ( Memento of the original from February 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 12, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.princessehof.nl

Coordinates: 53 ° 12 ′ 10.8 "  N , 5 ° 47 ′ 31.7"  E