Gemeentemuseum Den Haag

Gemeentemuseum Den Haag

Museum building designed by H.P. Berlage
Location in South Holland in the Netherlands
Location Stadhouderslaan 41
The Hague, Netherlands
Coordinates 52°5′22″N 4°16′50″E / 52.08944°N 4.28056°E / 52.08944; 4.28056Coordinates: 52°5′22″N 4°16′50″E / 52.08944°N 4.28056°E / 52.08944; 4.28056
Type Art museum
Visitors

383,790 (2012)[1]

Director Benno Tempel
Website www.gemeentemuseum.nl

The Gemeentemuseum Den Haag (English: Municipal Museum) is an art museum in The Hague in the Netherlands.

The museum, built 1931–1935, was designed by the Dutch architect H.P. Berlage.[2] It is renowned for its large Mondrian collection, the largest in the world. His last work, Victory Boogie-Woogie, is on display here.

GEM (museum for contemporary art) and Fotomuseum Den Haag (The Hague museum for photography) are part of the Gemeentemuseum, though not housed in the same building and with a separate entrance fee.[3][4]

Collection

Modern art

Pablo Picasso, 1910, Woman with Mustard Pot (La Femme au pot de moutarde), oil on canvas, 73 x 60 cm. Exhibited at the Armory Show, New York, Chicago, Boston 1913
Jürgen Partenheimer, Weltachse V, installation Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, 1999

The museum's collection of modern art includes works by international artists (Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Egon Schiele, Frank Stella, Henri Le Fauconnier and many others) and Dutch artists (Charlotte Dumas, Pyke Koch, Piet Mondriaan, Charley Toorop, Jan Toorop, Hans Wilschut and many others).[5]

Print Room

The museum has a collection of 19th and 20th century prints, posters and drawings, containing around 50,000 items. It comprises works by Dutch artists such as Co Westerik and Jan Toorop, as well as works by Rodolphe Bresdin, Ingres, Paul Klee, Toulouse-Lautrec, Odilon Redon and others. A selection is on view in the print room.[6]

Fashion

The collection of fashion items, accessories, jewellery, drawings and prints includes historical items as well as modern ones by designers such as Gabrielle Chanel, Frank Govers and Yoshiki Hishinuma. For reasons of conservation items are only shown at temporary exhibitions.[7]

Music

The music collection includes a large collection of musical instruments and a music library, with an emphasis on European music.[8]

References

  1. ↑ (Dutch) Jaarverslag 2012, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, 2013. Retrieved on 2013-09-11.
  2. ↑ "Haags Gemeentemuseum (rijksmonument #461450)". Monumentenregister (in Dutch). Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed.
  3. ↑ "GEM Museum voor actuele kunst".
  4. ↑ "Fotomuseum Den Haag".
  5. ↑ "Gemeentemuseum: Modern Art".
  6. ↑ "Gemeentemuseum: Print Room".
  7. ↑ "Gemeentemuseum: Fashion".
  8. ↑ "Gemeentemuseum: Music".

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