Van Gogh to Mondrian : Modern Art from the Kröller-Müller Museum

by De Jonge, Piet; Troy, David A.; De Wit, Wim (CON); Harrison, Stephen (CON); Rauscher, Janet S. (COP); Wieczorek, Marek (CON)

• ISBN13: 9781932543018
• ISBN10: 1932543015
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-05-01
• Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr

Summary

The Kröller-Müller Museum is one of the great art collections in Europe, yet it remains unknown to many because of its remote location in the Hoge Veluwe National Park in rural southeast Netherlands. This beautifully illustrated book features highlights from the Museum's collection of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century art, including more than a score of works by Vincent van Gogh.The Museum is the result of the passion of a singular collector: Helene Kröller-Müller (1869-1939). The wife of a Dutch shipping magnate, she used almost unlimited funds to amass an astounding collection in a short period of time. Beginning in the 1910s, she collected voraciously-not only Van Gogh but Neo-Impressionist masters Seurat, Signac, and Denis, and Symbolists Redon and Toorop. She patronized and supported artists who were pioneering abstraction-particularly Mondrian, Van Doesburg, and Van der Leck-and collected the Cubists, including Picasso, Gris, and Léger.Mrs. Kröller-Müller had a consuming desire to create a museum where her collection could be displayed for the public. Over a period of more than twenty-five years, she worked with some of the leading architects of the early twentieth century-H. P. Berlage, Mies van der Rohe, and Henry van de Velde-and finally in 1938 her dream was realized with the opening of the institution that bears her name.

Table of Contents

Directors' Preface and Acknowledgments	p. 9
Helene Kroller-Muller	p. 13
Telling Tales: The Kroller-Muller Collection and the Narrative of Modern Art	p. 35
Vincent van Gogh	p. 48
Neo-Impressionism and Symbolism	p. 74
Theo van Doesburg and Bart van der Leck in De Stijl	p. 98
Four Architects and a Museum: The Design of the Kroller-Muller Museum	p. 114
Helene Kroller-Muller and the Furniture of H. P. Berlage	p. 132
Cubism: A New Visual World	p. 140
Piet Mondrian's Turn from Cubism to Neoplasticism	p. 154
Checklist of the Exhibition	p. 172
Notes on Contributors	p. 178
Index	p. 179
Photo Credits	p. 184
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