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Amsterdam, Netherlands
Annet Gelink Gallery
Italian Open!
Dates: 31 Oct 09 - 19 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Laurierstraat 187-189 Amsterdam NL-1016
Tel: +31 20 3302066 Website
De Nieuwe Kerk
Oman
Dates: 17 Oct 09 - 18 Apr 10
Categories: Archaeology & Ancient art
Address: Dam Square, Amsterdam Amsterdam 1015 BC
Tel: +31 (0)20 638 6909 Website
Foam Photography Museum Amsterdam
Sanne Sannes: Darkness and Light
Dates: 30 Oct 09 - 9 Dec 09
Categories: Photography
Address: Keizergracht 609 Amsterdam 1017
Tel: +31 (0)20 551 6500 Website
Galerie Juliette Jongma
Karen Sargsyan
Dates: 7 Nov 09 - 23 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Gerard Doustraat 128-A Amsterdam 1073 VX
Tel: +31 (0)20 463 69 04 Website
Galerie Paul Andriesse
Vincenzo Castella / Jan van de Pavert
Dates: 23 Oct 09 - 28 Nov 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Gebouw Detroit, Withoedenveem Amsterdam 1019 HE
Tel: +31 (0)20 623 6237 Website
Hermitage Amsterdam
At the Russian Court: Palace and Protocol in the 19th Century
Dates: 20 Jun 09 - 31 Jan 10
Categories: Design
Decorative
Address: Amstel 51 Amsterdam 11675
Tel: +31-20-5308755 Website
This huge exhibition—featuring more than 2,000 objects on loan from the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg—inaugurates the Russian museum’s Amsterdam’s home in the newly restored 17th-century Amstelhof (now the Hermitage’s sole foreign exhibition centre). The space has been designed by the architectural firm Merkx+Girod to give an impression of the splendour of public rooms in which the court met in the royal palaces in St Petersburg and Moscow. Russia vacillated in
the 19th century between Francophile and “native” Slavic and Byzantine poles: the court fashioned its taste on European or national styles and more often than not a combination of the two. The tsars patronised artists and craftsmen from Italy, France and Germany, and British gardeners to ensure that the Russian court kept pace with developments in western Europe, and a succession of German tsarinas ensured a regular flow of works by Romantic and Nazarene artists. In the court costumes and furniture we see the native adaptation of the same sequence of styles seen elsewhere—neo-classical, Egyptian, Gothic revival and art nouveau. In this show are ball gowns and uniforms, jewellery by Fabergé, court paintings, furniture, silver, clocks and watches and Sèvres and other porcelain dinner services. D.L.
A. Malyukov, after original by Franz Krüger, Alexandra Feodorovna, 1836.
Museum Van Loon
Jurriaan Andriessen
Dates: 2 Oct 09 - 4 Jan 10
Categories: Old Master
Address: Keizersgracht 672 Amsterdam 1017 ET
Tel: Website
Rembrandt House Museum (Rembrandthuis)
Old Love, New Directions: 20 years Collecting for the Rembrandt House
Dates: 11 Sep 09 - 29 Nov 09
Categories: Curious
Address: Jodenbreestraat 4-6 Amsterdam 1011 NK
Tel: +31 (0)20 520 0400 Website
Rijksmuseum
Drawings by Jacob Cats
Dates: 1 Sep 09 - 30 Nov 09
Categories: 1800-1900 (Impressionism, etc)
Address: Jan Luijkenstraat 1 Amsterdam 107 ZD
Tel: +31 (0)20 674 7000 Website
Hendrick Avercamp: the Little Ice Age
Dates: 20 Nov 09 - 15 Feb 10
Categories: Old Master
Address: Jan Luijkenstraat 1 Amsterdam 107 ZD
Tel: +31 (0)20 674 7000 Website
Forty-five of Hendrick Avercamp’s paintings and drawings have been assembled for this show of chaotic and bustling winter scenes of people enjoying the frozen rivers and canals that came to typify 17th-century Dutch winter landscapes. The 20 paintings on show are supplemented by 25 of Avercamp’s drawings, the works having been loaned by such museums as the National Gallery, London, the Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest, and the Houston Museum of Fine Arts. The exhibition is the first to be devoted to Avercamp’s works.
After studying with the Danish portrait painter Pieter Isaacks (1569-1625) in Amsterdam, Avercamp (1585-1634) moved to Kampen in 1608 where his winter scenes found great popularity. This exhibition, however, also includes works that shed light on other more surprising areas of his oeuvre. The drawings on show include summer landscape studies, depictions of 17th-century workers and costume sketches that often appear in subsequent paintings. These less well known graphic works show Avercamp, say the show’s organisers, at his “most varied and adventurous”.
The show, which travels to the National Gallery of Art, Washington (21 March-5 July 2010), is accompanied by the publication of Hendrick Avercamp, Master of the Ice Scene, edited by Pieter Roelofs, and published by Nieuw Amsterdam (€29.95). The museum is launching a special programme for deaf and hard of hearing visitors to coincide with the exhibition. Hendrick Avercamp was himself deaf and mute.
Winter Landscape with Skaters (detail), about 1608.
Rijksmuseum Schiphol
Bonnefanten at Schiphol: Brueghel in Business
Dates: 1 Nov 09 - 31 Jan 10
Categories: Old Master
Address: Schiphol Airport Amsterdam
Tel: +31 (0)20 674 7000 Website
Van Gogh Museum
Alfred Stevens
Dates: 18 Sep 09 - 24 Jan 10
Categories: 1800-1900 (Impressionism, etc)
Address: Paulus Potterstraat 7 Amsterdam 1070 CX
Tel: +31 (0)20 570 5200 Website
Van Gogh’s Letters: the Artist Speaks
Dates: 9 Oct 09 - 3 Jan 10
Categories: 1800-1900 (Impressionism, etc)
Address: Paulus Potterstraat 7 Amsterdam 1070 CX
Tel: +31 (0)20 570 5200 Website
This exhibition celebrates the publication of definitive, six-volume edition of the artist’s correspondence (see p49). The Van Gogh Museum is marking the book launch by showing 120 letters, nearly all from the family collection. These are rarely exhibited, for conservation reasons, and never have so many been on show before. Three recently acquired letters with sketches addressed to Van Gogh’s artist friend Emile Bernard are being lent by the Morgan Library in New York.
Presented in the museum’s original Rietveld building, the letters are shown alongside paintings from the permanent collection. Altogether there are 340 artworks, including The Potato Eaters and The Bedroom. Light levels will be lowered for the works on paper, with the paintings spotlit, giving a different feel to a museum that is normally filled with daylight. The display of letters will also flow over into the print gallery.
Some of the letters include small drawings (above). Once Van Gogh became a full-time artist he would make rough sketches of his pictures to show his brother Theo what he was working on. The letters, mostly in Dutch and French, provide an intimate and revealing account of his development as an artist.
Another show (with almost completely different artworks) will be presented at the Royal Academy, London (“The Real Van Gogh: the Artist and his Letters”), from 23 January-
18 April 2010. Martin Bailey
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