All publications from the category MODERN — Van Gogh, Rietveld, Léger and others

Anti-Semitism in the 19th and early 20th centuries - More stories about works in the exhibition MODERN

Anti-Semitism in the 19th and early 20th centuries

Essays, MODERN — Van Gogh, Rietveld, Léger and others

by Maurice Rummens

Fig. 6 . Details of the back of the Stedelijk rocking chair where now unused stitching holes can be seen.

A nineteenth-century metal rocking chair

MODERN — Van Gogh, Rietveld, Léger and others, Research Logs

by Ingeborg de Roode and Stedelijk conservators

Fig. 1. Eduard Cuypers, ink set, design 1905 or earlier, copper, brass, glass, made by Het Huis, Atelier voor Decoratieve Kunst, Amsterdam. Coll. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, gift of D.J. Veltman en C.M. Veltman-Sonnenberg, Ouderkerk aan de Amstel

Expressive Decoration and Rational Rivets: An Ink Set by Eduard Cuypers

MODERN — Van Gogh, Rietveld, Léger and others, Research Logs

by Kylièn Bergh and Ingeborg de Roode

Geometry Turning Into “Modernity”? by Ginger van den Akker

Geometry Turning Into “Modernity”?

MODERN — Van Gogh, Rietveld, Léger and others, Research Logs

by Ginger van den Akker

Fig. 3 Katsushika Hokusai, Gohyakurakanji Sazaidô (The Turban Shell Hall of the Five Hundred Arhat Temple), from the series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, Edo period, c. 1832. Color woodcut, 25.4 × 36.9 cm. Dutch National Museum of World Cultures, Inv. Nr. RV-4067-4. While Japanese prints were best known for their two-dimensional effect, the influence of European linear perspective with a vanishing point can be seen here.

Decolonizing Modernism(s)

Conversations, MODERN — Van Gogh, Rietveld, Léger and others

Rolando Vázquez Melken and the Stedelijk curators

Fig. 5. George Hendrik Breitner, Distribution of Soup, 1882. Watercolor and pencil on paper, 30 × 53 cm. Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, gift of the Association for the Formation of a Public Collection of Contemporary Art in Amsterdam (VVHK), 1949. Breitner wrote that he wanted to be a “painter of the people,” like Vincent van Gogh, with whom he spent some time.

From Modern to Modernism

Essays, MODERN — Van Gogh, Rietveld, Léger and others

Introduction by Maurice Rummens and Ingeborg de Roode

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