Sculpture park at the Kröller-Müller Museum
The sculpture park at the Kröller-Müller Museum is located in the De Hoge Veluwe National Park near Otterlo in the Netherlands . The park, located in the immediate vicinity of the Kröller-Müller Museum , is one of the largest and most renowned sculpture parks in Europe with an area of more than 25 hectares .
Sculpture park
The park was opened in 1961 in the size of four hectares. It forms a combination of sculpture garden , sculpture park and sculpture forest and offers space for numerous currents in international sculpture of the 20th century. Figurative and abstract art are represented. As early as 1966, the park was expanded to nine hectares. Since 2001 the sculpture park covers an area of around 25 hectares.
collection
The sculpture collection includes works by national and international sculptors. Currently represented are among others:
- Hans Aeschbacher with Large Figure I (1961)
- Jean Amado with De la mer, le passage ... (1979)
- Carl Andre with Weathering piece (1970) and 43 Roaring forty (1988)
- Willy Anthoons with Forme infinie (1949)
- Kenneth Armitage with Monitor (1961)
- Jean Arp with Berger de nuages (1953)
- Joannis Avramidis with large figure (1958)
- Mirosław Bałka with 125x211x179 and 190x129x73 (1993) and 200x238x95 (fountain) (1996/2001)
- Chris Booth with Echo van de Veluwe (2003-2005)
- Émile-Antoine Bourdelle with La grande Pénélope (1912)
- Tom Claassen with 18 reclining wooden men (2000) and Rocky lumps (2005/06)
- Adam Colton with Blob and Bone (2002)
- Eugène Dodeigne with Homme et femme (1963) and Sept (1993)
- Jean Dubuffet with Jardin d'émail (1974)
- Sorel Etrog with Complexes of a young lady (1960/62)
- Ian Hamilton Finlay with Sacred grove: five columns for the Kröller-Müller (1980–1982)
- Lucio Fontana with Concetto spaziale 'Natura' (1959–1960)
- Fortuyn / O'Brien with The twenty-four men in white (1988)
- Otto Freundlich with composition (1933/1961)
- Dan Graham with Two adjacent pavilions (1978/2001)
- Emilio Greco with La Grande Bagnante no. 3 (1957)
- Barbara Hepworth with Squares with two circles (1963–1964), Dual form (1965), Sphere with inner form (1963) and others
- Huang Yong Ping with The overturned tomb (1994)
- Phillip King with Brake (1966), Open bound (1973) and others
- Ödon Koch with Figure I (1958)
- Bertrand Lavier with Privé sur mobi (1986)
- Jacques Lipchitz with Le cri (Le couple) (1928–1929) and Le chant des voyelles (1931–1932)
- Aristide Maillol with L'Air (1939/1962)
- Étienne Martin with Demeure 3 (1960)
- Arturo Martini with Giuditta e Oloferne (1932–1933)
- Marcello Mascherini with Ritratto di Franca (1952)
- Umberto Mastroianni with La conquista (1954) and Picadores (1965)
- Henry Moore with Animal head (1956) and Two-piece reclining figure II (1960), sculptures by him are on Wildbahnweg near the Kröller-Müller Museum as well as the sculpture group Three upright motives (1955–1956, 1965)
- François Morellet with La plate-bande (1988)
- Jan van Munster with Plus Minus (1987)
- Isamu Noguchi with The Cry (1959–1961 / 1962)
- Claes Oldenburg with Trowel (1971), outside the sculpture park
- Marta Pan with Sculpture flottante, Otterlo (1960–1961) and Amphithéâtre (2007)
- Eduardo Paolozzi with St. Sebastian III (1958) and Medea (1964)
- Constant Permeke with Niobe (1951)
- Germaine Richier with Le grand homme de la nuit (1954/55)
- George Rickey with Two vertical, three horizontal lines (1965–1966)
- Auguste Rodin with Femme Accroupie (1882)
- Ulrich Rückriem with cube (split) (1971), dolomite (cut) (1974) and others
- Richard Serra with Spin out, for Robert Smithson (1972–1973) and One (1988)
- Piet Slegers with Landschaps-Zonneproject (1979) and Everzwijn (1958)
- Tony Smith with Wandering rocks (1967/79)
- Kenneth Snelson with Needle tower (1968)
- Evert strobos with palissade (1973/1991)
- Mark di Suvero with K-piece (1972)
- Alina Szapocznikow with Bellies (1968)
- Carel Visser with Kubus en zijn stapeling (1967), Pleinbeeld (1998) and others
- André Volten with Zuil (1968), Cubic Construction (1968) and others
- Magdalena Wiecek with Close to the Earth (1968)
- Fritz Wotruba with a standing figure (1958–1959) and a squatting figure (1950–1951) and others
Contemporary architecture is represented by two exhibition pavilions, the Eyck pavilion by Aldo van Eyck and the Rietveld pavilion by Gerrit Rietveld .
Photo gallery
literature
- Jimena Blazquez Abascal, Beeldenparken, kunst en natuur in Europa, een gids , THOTH, Bussum 2006. ISBN 90-6868-424-8
- Toos van Kooten / Marente Bloemheuvel (eds.), Beeldentuin Kröller-Müller Museum , NAi Uitgevers, Rotterdam 2007. ISBN 978-90-5662-582-5
Web links
- Official website of the museum (multilingual)
Coordinates: 52 ° 5 '45.4 " N , 5 ° 49' 0.9" E