Dordrechts Museum

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Dordrechts Museum
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The building of the Dordrechts Museum
Dordrechts Museum
Established1842
Location Dordrecht, Netherlands
Coordinates 51°48′50″N4°40′19″E / 51.81388°N 4.67194°E / 51.81388; 4.67194
Type Art museum
Visitorsc. 87.000 (2023)
DirectorFemke Hameetman
CuratorSander Paarlberg
Wilma Sütö
Website www.dordrechtsmuseum.nl

Dordrechts Museum is an art museum in Dordrecht, Netherlands. [1] [2] [3] The museum was founded in 1842 and has a collection of artists of painting and other artistic objects from the last six centuries. [2] The permanent collection includes numerous paintings from the Dutch Golden Age and the baroque period, as well as a sizeable collection of landscape art and 19th century paintings. [2] The museum has an important collection of Dutch Masters in the Netherlands with art on display from Rembrandt, Jacob van Strij and the city's most famous painter Aelbert Cuyp. [4]

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History

The museum was established in 1842 by a group of five art collectors from the Dordrecht area. [5] It moved to its current location in 1904 taking over the converted building of a former asylum for the mentally ill. [6] Initial work to make the building suitable was designed by Bernardus van Bilderbeek. It was not until the 1970s that there was further work on the museum - local architect and designer Water Nikkels oversaw the creation of two adjoining buildings. In 2006, architect Dirk Jan Postel (of Kraaivanger Architects) received the commission to add a new wing. [7] It was completed by 2010 allowing for better display temporary exhibitions, as well as improved visitor facilities, including more toilets, a shop and restaurant (the 'Grand Cafe'). [8]

In 2015, the museum restituted to the heirs of Jacques Hederman a painting by Jacob Cuyp (1594 – 1652) which had been looted by the Nazis. The museum then repurchased the painting. [9] [10]

Exhibitions

The museum shows regular exhibitions of Old Master, modern and contemporary art. One of its most noted exhibitions was In the Light of Cuyp: Aelbert Cuyp & Gainsborough – Constable – Turner, which explored the influencing of the Dordrecht landscape painters on British artists from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. [11] [12] The museum also hosts the Galatea Foundation's annual art prize to support migrants with artistic careers. [13]

Governance

Since 2022, the artistic director has been Femke Hameetman. [14] She replaced Peter Schoon, who had been artistic director since 2002. [15] There are around 120 staff, [16] and a yearly budget of around 16 million Euros. [17] In 2023, the museum received 87,067 visitors. [17]

Paintings

The museum has works of the following artists:

References

  1. ↑ Noortwijk, Liesbeth van; Paarlberg, Sander (2010). The Dordrecht Museum. ISBN   978-90-6868-564-0.
  2. 1 2 3 Noortwijk, Liesbeth van (2020). The Dordrecht Museum. Looking at Six Centuries of Painting. Dordrecht: Dordrechts Museum. ISBN   978-90-6868-822-1.
  3. ↑ "Dordrechts Museum | Museum/nl\". Museum.nl (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 2025-01-26. Retrieved 2025-06-08.
  4. ↑ Postel, Dirk Jan (2008). Dirk Jan Postel. Mulgrave, Vic: Images Publishing. p. 197. ISBN   978-1-86470-210-1.
  5. ↑ "Dordrechts Museum". Sotherbys. Retrieved 21 May 2024.
  6. ↑ "Over het gebouw". www.dordrechtsmuseum.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 2025-06-08.
  7. ↑ Architectenweb. "Postel gaat Dordrecht Museum verbouwen". architectenweb.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 2025-06-08.
  8. ↑ "Dordrechts Museum | Kraaijvanger". www.kraaijvanger.nl. Retrieved 2025-06-08.
  9. ↑ "The Netherlands is still hoarding a massive collection of art looted from Jews by Nazis - Europe - Haaretz.com". 2020-09-08. Archived from the original on 8 September 2020. Retrieved 2024-11-30.
  10. ↑ "Dordrecht Museum buys back art stolen in WWII from heirs". www.lootedart.com. Retrieved 2024-11-30.
  11. ↑ "In the Light of Cuyp". www.dordrechtsmuseum.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 2025-06-08.
  12. ↑ "In the Light of Cuyp". Google Arts & Culture. Retrieved 2025-06-08.
  13. ↑ "Art". GalateaFoundation. Retrieved 2025-06-08.
  14. ↑ "Femke Hameetman vanaf 9 mei artistiek directeur Dordrechts Museum". www.dordrechtsmuseum.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 2024-11-20.
  15. ↑ "Interview Peter Schoon". Vereniging Rembrandt (in Dutch). Retrieved 2024-11-20.
  16. ↑ "Medewerkers". www.dordrechtsmuseum.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 2024-11-20.
  17. 1 2 "Jaarverslag 2023". www.dordrechtsmuseum.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 2024-11-20.
  18. ↑ "Philip Kouwen" (in Dutch). Dordrechts Museum. Retrieved 19 June 2016.
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