The small exhibition at Panorama Mesdag, not to be confused with the nearby Mesdag Collection, puts local artist Jan Giesen in the spotlight. Though now hardly known, he became an influential graphic designer and arts teacher.
Jan Six, art historian and art dealer, made headlines yesterday. He discovered and bought a ‘new’ Rembrandt. This previously unknown Rembrandt is exhibited at the Amsterdam Hermitage from today, for just four weeks.
Oude Delft 210 2611 HJ DELFT Open two weekends a year. The KunstKamer in Delft is an initiative of four art lovers. They joined forces and together organize an exhibition twice a year in a sixteenth-century canal house in the center of Delft. The special location is located at Oude Delft 210. It is a…
Art Nouveau flourished roughly between 1890 to 1910. It went by various names in various countries and involved art, architecture and applied art. Its roots lay in Asian art, the British Arts and Crafts movement and the Pre-Raphaelites . . .
Henk Helmantel mainly paints church-interiors and still lives. Experts call him a master of realism or one of the ‘northern realists’. The still-lives certainly are realistic . . .
Jean Brusselmans is perhaps less known than his fellow painter, Rik Wouters, with whom he shared a studio . . . This is very well conceived exhibition with ample explanations along the way to show the work of a quiet artist who was, for a long time, eclipsed by the show-manship of his contemporaries.
Why Gouda? Pieter Pourbus was born here, around 1523. He painted one of his alter pieces for Gouda’s Sint Janskerk (Saint John’s church). This church, known for its stained glass and on the UNESCO heritage list, lies next the museum . . . In many of his paintings, Pourbus mixes Medieval and Renaissance influences.
The paintings capture a sunny idyllic Holland . . . Even his final landscapes are of summer gardens, with the Wannsee occasionally shimmering through trees.
