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Eight Stacked Beams
Carel Visser, 1964, sculpture, BK-2008-4
The eight massive planks that form this abstract sculpture are not stacked in precise symmetry. Each pair of planks is slightly further to the side. It all appears quite natural, yet the stack is impossible to balance. So the construction is a crucial element. In fact there is a seam along all the…
On display in room 3.4
Armchair for Til Brugman
Gerrit Thomas Rietveld, c. 1919, BK-2010-1
No Dutch piece of furniture has been acclaimed as much as this armchair, designed around 1918 by Gerrit Rietveld. In its red and blue colours - first applied around 1924 - the chair became an international design icon. In fact Rietveld’s small furniture workshop in Utrecht supplied the chair in…
On display in room 3.2
Dish Relief
Jan Schoonhoven, 1963, relief (sculpture), SK-A-5007
Although by the 1960s, artist Jan J. Schoonhoven was celebrated worldwide, he continued to work full-time for the Dutch Post Office (PTT). At first he used to make his characteristic white reliefs of squares and rectangles at night, on the kitchen table. Occasionally he tried other shapes. He showed…
On display in room 3.4
FK 23 Bantam
Frits Koolhoven, 1918, NG-2011-1
The F.K. 23 Bantam was developed in 1917 by Dutch aviation pioneer Frederick Koolhoven, then working as chief designer at British Aerial Transport Company. The biplane was intended as a fighter for the nascent Royal Air Force in the First World War. This craft was shown in 1919 at the First Aviation…
On display in room 3.2
Ambtskostuum van Hendrikus Colijn
C. Meuven & Zoon, 1925 - 1926, NG-1993-2
Gezicht vanaf de Rapenburgwal op de…
Willem Witsen, 1911, painting, SK-A-2952
De Dam te Amsterdam
George Hendrik Breitner, 1901, drawing, SK-A-3659
Comb in the form of two dragonflies
Lucien Gaillard, c. 1904, jewellery, BK-1990-1
On display in room 0.9
Echarpe of loper van naaldkant van…
Isidore De Rudder, 1918, BK-BR-J-233