Rijksmuseum

A few weeks ago I visited  The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam with my daughter 

It was almost inpossible to get near the famous painting of Rembrandt The Nightwatch.

Earlier today president Obama visited the Museum and got a private tour.

Picture president Obama AD 

Another visit to Utrecht

Last sunday I visited Utrecht with my daughter. It's one of my favorite city's in the Netherlands.
I like the canals, old buildings and museums. This time we visited the Centraal Museum, there are several exhibition, and this was one of them. More information about the museum can be found here.

Detail of the costume.

Jopie Huisman (1922-2000)

Jopie Huisman was born in Workum in the north of the Netherlands in 1922.

During WWII he was forced to work in Germany, he escaped in 1943.

He wanted to be a painter, but he earned not enough so he started a business in old metal and old clothes.

He started to paint objects as clothing and shoes, but also landscapes.

The outside of the museum

The inside

Selfportrait

My favorite is the red coat hanging on the clothesline. Have you heard of Jopie before?

The first two pictures were taken from the website of the museum, the other
ones are scanned postcards.

The river De Waal

Sunday, after a visit at a postcard fair, we drove home.

Instead of taking the highway we drove among the river.

A lot of geese

Sculpture by Jan Vos, 2003

A former brickfactory, that's now used as houses.

A small church

Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972)

On Friday I like to blog about an artist I admire.

This week the Dutch graphic designer M.C. Escher.

He is famous for his mathematically inspired woodcuts, linographs and mezzotints.

Hand with reflecting globe

source: Wikipedia

In the Hague, in a former Palace of Queen Emma, there is an permanent exhibition of his work.
It's named the Escher museum, more information can be found here. The museum features a permanent display of a large number of his works

Ascending and descending

In his work is so much to discover.
Day and night

He travelled a lot as you can see in his work.
High and low

Concave and convex

Self portrait

Images are taken from the book M.C. Escher Grafiek en Tekeningen
Koninklijke Uitgeverij J. J. Tijl NV Zwolle

René Magritte

One of my favorite artist is the Belgian painter René Margritte. (1898-1967)

The school teacher (1954)

Le blanc-seing (1965)


There is always something strange in his paintings

La grande  guerre (1964)

Golconde (1953)

Painting on a house, the picture was taken  in Berlin in 2012

The images are scans taken form the book Margritte by Jacques Meuris 

except for the last one, that one was taken by me.

An afternoon in 's Hertogenbosch part 2



After our walk we visited the museum

One part of the museum is for modern art

3 little drawings by Pablo Piscasso

Beautiful light through the ceilings of the museum