Sculpture park at the Kröller-Müller Museum

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Access route to the Kröller-Müller Museum
Jardin d'émail by Jean Dubuffet
L'Air by Aristide Maillol

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:

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

Commons : Kröller-Müller Museum  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 52 ° 5 '45.4 "  N , 5 ° 49' 0.9"  E