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In this book, three famous, late 19th-century artists take centre stage: Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) and Henri Le Fauconnier (1881-1945). They played a crucial role in the genesis of the Bergen School. The works of these great masters are juxtaposed with the oeuvres of the very first Bergen School artists: Leo Gestel, Gerrit Willem van Blaaderen, Else Berg, Mommie Schwarz, Dirk Filarski, Arnout Colnot and the Wiegman brothers. This book paints a new and more nuanced picture of the rise of Expressionism in the Netherlands. Van Gogh, Cézanne, Le Fauconnier & the Bergen School thus represents a valuable addition to the history of Dutch art.

Manhattan Masters shows the most beautiful Dutch Masters from the Golden Age in The Frick Collection, New York. The book elaborates the creation of The Frick Collection, brought together during America’s Gilded Age in the last quarter of the 19th century. This book, published to accompany the exhibition, focuses exclusively on Dutch paintings of the 17th century and features outstanding works by renowned artist of that period, including Rembrandt, Vermeer, Hals, and Ruisdael.

Henry Moore (1898–1986) is undoubtedly one of the leading English sculptors of the 20th century. His work in museums, parks and on town squares can be admired throughout the world. How did Moore arrive at his unique and instantly recognisable visual vocabulary?Henry Moore – Form and Material is not just a display of masterpieces from his oeuvre but also focuses on the evolution that he underwent as a sculptor and the influence that nature has had on his work. This dozens of objects and sculptures collected together in this publication reveal the vision and creative process that formed one of the most important innovators of modern sculpture. The selected works illustrate how the choice of materials shaped the form, dimensions and subjects of his sculptures.Text in English and Dutch.

The Danish artists participating in the Cobra movement (1948-1951) are 10 to 15 years older than their Dutch and Belgian colleagues. They experienced in the '30s and '40s an intense artistic development, which later unmistakably influenced Cobra and is thus of great importance for the Dutch postwar visual art. With the Danish triptych exhibition, the Cobra Museum of Modern Art opens the anniversary year 2023, which is dedicated to the founding of the Cobra movement - 75 years ago.Text in English and Dutch.

The monumental 17th century Solebay Tapestry series captures the first major naval battle of the third Anglo-Dutch war (1672-1674), which took place off the coast of England. Of the 12 tapestries created after drawings by the artist Willem van de Velde the Elder (who witnessed the battle firsthand), two are in the collection of the National Maritime Museum in Amsterdam. The first tapestry shows the burning of the flagship of the English fleet, the Royal James. The other depicts the two war fleets as they line up in a long line, ready to continue the battle the next morning. This is the first book in a series that highlights the objects in the National Maritime Museum of the Netherlands.

Freedom Without Borders. From Appel to Basquiat shows Cobra's close affinity with the creative free expression of artists over the years. The universal character of Cobra is emphasised by displaying almost 150 works by well-known and lesser-known artists brought together in surprising combinations. Works by Cobra artists such as Appel, Constant and Alechinsky are shown with precursors such as Van Gogh, Picasso, Miró and Munch, with peers such as Pollock and more recent artists such as Basquiat. By placing the artworks next to or close to each other, new cross-references and perspectives on the meaning of Cobra art emerge and the relationship to precursors, contemporaries and contemporary artists is shown. This publication gives the reader the freedom to follow and discover connections or arrive at different views.Text in English and Dutch.

“Dirck Nab's drawn landscapes touch us because they evoke a desire to be there: alone with our thoughts in the wild dunes or in the vast fields." - Taco Dibbets , director of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.Dirck Nab draws in nature, his true source of inspiration. He works in the dunes of North Holland, near his studio in Bakkum. His drawings, in vigorous charcoal or chalk strokes, are characterised by a powerful clair-obscur.In the book Dirck Nab - Paysage Dessiné, the hand becomes visible. The hand that notes, is carried away, bows, plays or gets carried away with the wind. Dirck Nab's drawings are accompanied by writings by Dirck Nab himself, as well as texts by Huigen Leeflang (curator at the Prints and Drawings Department of the Rijksmuseum), Sjoerd Kuyper (writer), Ineke Holzhaus (poet), Theo Olthuis (poet), Harry ter Balkt (poet), Fernando Pessoa (poet) and Taco Dibbits (director of the Rijksmuseum).The book Dirck Nab - Paysage Dessiné was one of the many projects close to the heart of Ger Luijten, director of the Fondation Custodia since 2010 and who died suddenly in December 2022.https://dircknab.nl/fr/dirck-nab/Text in French.

Vincent van Gogh boarded the last train from The Hague to Hoogeveen on Tuesday, September 11, 1883. He stays there for several weeks, then moves to Nieuw-Amsterdam/Veenoord and visits Zweeloo. The landscape makes a deep impression on him. Everywhere around him he sees landscapes that remind him of the work of his great examples: the Dutch landscape painters of the 17th century, the 19th-century Barbizon School of France and his contemporaries of the Hague School. It inspired him to set to work himself. His period in Drenthe is an important moment in Van Gogh's development as an artist that ultimately made him world famous. This book sheds new light on perhaps the least known chapter in Van Gogh's life story.

When the survival of the Catholic Church was threatened during the Republic and Catholic shelter churches were not allowed to be recognisable from the street, what was not allowed to be shown on the outside was compensated for on the inside. In the 17th century, the robes became gold, silver and silk expressions of silent resistance, but also of a feminist agenda of the makers. Behind closed doors, everything was literally and figuratively pulled out to propagate the Catholic faith. Worn ball gowns with colourful flowered French, English and Chinese fashion fabrics were donated to the church by rich, pious women so that beautiful and special church vestments could be made from them. So it could easily happen that a priest in a pink robe with flowers stood at the altar.

This book sheds new light on Delft pottery from the 17th and 18th centuries. During this period, the Delft pottery industry took off, under the strong influence of a changing world. Delft potters were seen as true innovators. Today, ceramics is experiencing another heyday. A new vanguard of Dutch makers is rediscovering the age-old craft and taking a fresh look at the material and its significance. Pioneering Ceramics zooms in on innovation within the ceramic craft. The basic recipe of ceramics has hardly changed over the centuries, but the world in which ceramics are made has. The publication takes a closer look at similarities and differences between pioneering makers then and now.Text in English and Dutch.

For more than two decades, artist Antonio López dragged his painting gear up and down a high tower to finish his panoramic painting of Madrid. It is typical of the Spaniard: the painting process is a way of getting to know the world better, he thinks. By measuring everything extensively and always staying close to his subject, López manages to flawlessly copy reality. But his work never becomes distant or cold.Although López was once described as "the greatest realist artist" by American art critic Robert Hughes back in the 1980s, his fame in the Netherlands has not yet achieved anything. Until now. This book serves as a Dutch introduction to the life and work of López. We get to know him personally in an interview and find out more about his technique in articles by various Dutch and Spanish authors.