Naarden – Holland.

Tuesday 29th October 2024.

Day 46.

A little thing I knocked up in the art activity class here at the art museum, it’s in the style of Van Gogh, probably worth millions😊

This morning we drove into the De Hogue Veluwe National Park heading for The Kroller Museum of Art. We had prepaid €13 each to go into the museum and €9.50 for the parking, as we approached the entrance to the park we were stopped by a barrier where a patient young man explained we had to pay a further €13 each just for the pleasure of driving the 2k to the museum, ouch😵‍💫

The Kroller-Muller Museum is a second home to Vincent Van Gogh, the museum boasts 90 of his paintings and 180 of his drawings and is the second largest collection of his work in the world. Other work on display included paintings by Claude Monet,George’s Seurat, Pablo Picasso and Piet Mondrian. There was also a range of work by other distinguished artists.

Bottom left is a cubist painting by Picasso and bottom right is one of his early paintings.

The Kroller-Muller museum is the life work of Helene Kroller-Muller, between 1907 and 1922 she and her husband bought almost 11,500 works of art one of the largest private collections of the 20th century. She wanted to have a place where she could share her passion for modern art and this was fulfilled in 1938 when the museum opened it’s doors to the public. The museum has been expanded several times since and hosts displays of guest artists.

In it’s considerable grounds it has a sculpture trail with some very different pieces of work.

There is also an area with work by the English sculptor Barbara Hepworth.

After lunch we drove north west to Naarden which is a Dutch fortified town and is the best preserved fortified town in the Netherlands. It is said to be unique in Europe because of its star shape, it boasts double ramparts, gatehouses and bastions, however we have been to two other star shaped fortifications.