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It is spring and a fresh breeze blows through the stuffy chambers of The Muzeheerd. Not only windows and doors are being opened; the same goes for cabinets and closets. Everything has to come out and it s high time to air its contents. This goes not only for the entire collection, consisting of contemporary works of nearly hundred highly- appreciated colleagues, but also for the Canto Collection (which is the subject of a new book being published!), as well as the smaller Mankes Collection and other works that are part of the permanent collections.
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Lucas van Leyden | zoom | |
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Anoniem (Vlaams-Nederlands) | zoom | |
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Rummaging through everything means that one sometimes finds something that was deemed lost, sometimes things are rediscovered, but there is always the joy of recognition. It's a genuine feast for the eye. And all the more so when it turns out that a total of 555 objects was hidden in these closets. |
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| Lotta Blokker | zoom | |
Robin D'arcy Shillcock | zoom | |
Pieter Dupont | zoom |
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| The permanent collection of The Muzeheerd consists of (a lot of) older art and thus has little to do with the collection contemporary realism. Thus this exhibition lacks all logic, but all - in our eyes - has to do with beauty. The value of this has nothing to do with the price tag, but everything with the love of creating - of beautiful things, made by human hands. Whenever we saw the slightest possibility (and even when we didn t) we purchased it. Whether it concerned unpretentious Roman bottles, a late medieval statue of the Lady Mary, a single not-illuminated page from a book of hours, dating from around 1470. Or a woodcut of Albrecht Dürer, the graceful graphic art of Heinrich Aldegrever, engravings with dancing peasants by Hans Sebald Beham, yes even Lucas van Leyden makes an appearance. All 16th century printings. But also our own 17th century artists are represented by, amongst others, landscapes by Jan van de Velde, Karel Dujardin, Allaert van Everdingen, Anthonie Waterloo, Adriaen van Ostade, Paulus Potter and a number of anonymous drawings from that period. Finally, 19th century graphic art is represented in the form of works of Willen Witsen, Pieter Dupont and Jan Mankes. |
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| Rob Møhlmann | zoom | |
Arya Pleisier | zoom | |
Adriaen van Ostade | zoom | |
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| To sum up, it all concerns representional art. And of course these works still have to do with contemporary art, as they, after all, are the giants on whose shoulders the artists of today are standing.
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| Albrecht Dürer | zoom | |
Jan Mankes | zoom | |
Ellis Tertoolen | zoom | |
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| Douwe Elias | zoom | |
Flip Gaasendam | zoom | |
Gerrit de Vries | zoom | |
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Pieter Pander | zoom | |
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