Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen announces new findings on Van Meegeren’s forgeries

ROTTERDAM.- New facts have emerged about the greatest forgery of the twentieth century: the ‘Vermeers’ of master forger Han van Meegeren. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen owns possibly the most famous forgery in the Netherlands: The Supper at Emmaus. The latest in the series of publications, Boijmans Studies, deals with the history of this sensational forgery and reveals how Van Meegeren was able to mislead the entire art world. Until now it was believed that Han van Meegeren (1889-1947) used pigments that were common [...]

Johan Thorn Prikker: from Art Nouveau to Abstraction at Museum Kunst Palast

DUSSELDORF.- Working together with the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, over 130 works are presented byMuseum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, from the multi-faceted oeuvre of Johan Thorn Prikker (The Hague 1868 to 1932 Cologne). The exhibition of this Dutch artist, who mainly became famous through his Art Nouveau works, is the first retrospective of his oeuvre in over 30 years, comprising all the genres in which this versatile artist was active: paintings, drawings, watercolours, mosaics, murals, glass windows, furniture, design objects, [...]

The Peanut-Butter Platform by Wim T. Schippers at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

ROTTERDAM.- An exhibition centred around the controversial ‘Peanut-Butter Platform’ by Wim T. Schippers opens during the Rotterdam Museum Night. This is the first time that the floor sculpture, which was recently acquired by the museum, has been exhibited in Rotterdam. The ‘Peanut-Butter Platform’ (1962) by Wim T. Schippers was acquired for Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen collection in December 2010. From this spring, the floor will be on show in a presentation that includes other works by the artist from the collection, [...]

New Museum Presents First Major United States Survey of Works by George Condo

NEW YORK, NY.- Since first bursting onto the scene in the early 1980s with his unique adaptation of the language of Old Master painting, George Condo has created one of the most adventurous, imaginative, and provocative bodies of work in contemporary art. Condo’s work has been deeply influential to two generations of American and European painters, who have felt the impact of the artist’s astonishing technical ability, stylistic versatility, and inventive subject matter. This January, the New Museum presents “George [...]

Johan Thorn Prikker: Beyond Art Nouveau at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

ROTTERDAM.- This autumn Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is showing more than 200 highlights from the multifaceted oeuvre of Johan Thorn Prikker (1868-1932). This is the first major exhibition devoted to one of the most prominent designers from the heyday of Dutch art at the beginning of the twentieth century. Beyond Art Nouveau illustrates Thorn Prikker’s enormous creativity and love of experimentation. Johan Thorn Prikker gained recognition early in his career for his paintings and drawings, which are among the finest examples [...]

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Claims Painting is by Rembrandt Not His Pupil

ROTTERDAM.- We have just been informed that Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen has a new Rembrandt in the collection. According to the new standard work on the painter, the painting ‘Tobias and His Wife’ is not the work of a pupil of Rembrandt, but is by Rembrandt himself. From Thursday 7 October the painting will be exhibited for one month in the museum. The painting will be on view in the Old-Dutch staircase of the museum, between galleries 17 and 18 [...]

All Eyes on Kees van Dongen in Exhibition at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

ROTTERDAM.- Painter, society artist and womanizer, Kees van Dongen painted the Parisian avant-garde nude or clothed. This autumn Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen presents a selection of sixty masterpaintings from international collections. His models dressed in the haute couture of Paul Poiret and still inspire fashion designers like Vera Wang and John Galliano. ‘All Eyes on Kees van Dongen’ showcases this stellar artist’s sophisticated eye and his ideal of beauty. Kees van Dongen, Lieuses / Sheaf Binders, 1905 Oil on canvas, [...]

In September, All Eyes will Be on Kees van Dongen Exhibition

ROTTERDAM.- This autumn, for the first time, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is showing the recently restored work A Finger on her Cheek by Kees van Dongen in its original state in All Eyes on Kees van Dongen, an exhibition that also features some sixty other key masterpieces from international collections. This autumn Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is staging a major exhibition of paintings by the internationally renowned artist Kees van Dongen (1877-1968). The thoughtful selection of eighty works -around sixty [...]

Public Allowed to See Restoration of Dalí Painting at Museum in Rotterdam

ROTTERDAM.- Have you ever seen a famous painting being restored? This summer the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is letting everyone enjoy a process that is usually carried out behind closed doors. From mid-June the enormous painting Landscape with a Girl Skipping Rope by the world-famous Surrealist artist Salvador Dalí will undergo a miraculous restoration. You can follow the silent spectacle for two months in the Serra gallery. The painting and six other Dalís from the museum collection will then go [...]

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Presents Han Van Meegeren’s Fake Vermeers

ROTTERDAM.- Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen presents ‘Van Meegeren’s Fake Vermeers’, an exhibition of the famous forgeries of Han van Meegeren. Van Meegeren craftily exploited art historians’ desire to discover early works by Johannes Vermeer. During a famous court case in which Van Meegeren was accused of Nazi collaboration, he admitted that he had forged old master paintings, including several Vermeers. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen had acquired one of the fake Vermeer from Van Meegeren. The exhibition explores Van Meegeren’s technique, [...]

Carsten Holler Presents New Series of Huge Complex Mushroom Replicas

ROTTERDAM.- Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen stages Carsten Höller’s exhibition Divided Divided. The popular contemporary artist is creating a 1,500 m2 installation especially for the museum. What’s more, visitors can spend the night in the Revolving Hotel Room. All the works on show are based on a simple mathematical formula that divides and re-divides the space and the objects into two. Carsten Höller is presenting a new series of huge complex mushroom replicas (Triple Giant Mushrooms, 2009-2010). He has made a [...]