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The museum opened on 2 June 1973, [1] and its buildings were designed by Gerrit Rietveld and Kisho Kurokawa. The museum contains the largest collection of Van Gogh's paintings and drawings in the world. In 2017, the museum had 2.3 million visitors and was the most-visited museum in the Netherlands, and the 23rd-most-visited art museum in the world.
Rietveld had his first retrospective exhibition devoted to his architectural work at the Central Museum, Utrecht, in 1958. When the art academy in Amsterdam became part of the higher professional education system in 1968 and was given the status of an Academy for Fine Arts and Design, the name was changed to the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in ...
The Red and Blue Chair is a chair designed in 1917 by Gerrit Rietveld. It represents one of the first explorations by the De Stijl art movement in three dimensions. It features several Rietveld joints. The original chair was constructed of unstained beech wood and was not painted red, blue, yellow, and black until around 1923.
It also runs the Rietveld Schröder House, a famous Modernist house built in 1924 by the Dutch architect Gerrit Rietveld for Mrs. Truus Schröder-Schräder [4] and her three children, which is now owned by the museum and open to the public (prebooking usually needed).
Pages in category "Gerrit Rietveld buildings" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. ... Van Gogh Museum This page was last ...
The Rietveld Schröder House constitutes both inside and outside a radical break with all architecture before it. The two-storey house is situated in Utrecht, at the end of a terrace, but it makes no attempt to relate to its neighbouring buildings (although it shares an exterior wall with the last house in the terrace).
As acting director and deputy director of the IvKNO Instituut voor Kunstnijverheidsonderwijs (later renamed Gerrit Rietveld Academy), [4] Sybren Valkema bore special responsibility over a period of 10 years for the preparations for the new academy building, designed by architect Gerrit Rietveld. As a member of official committees and through ...
Van der Leck in 1956 Metz & Co. showroom with wall hangings (left and rear walls) and carpet by Bart van der Leck, and furniture by Gerrit Rietveld. Bart van der Leck (26 November 1876 – 13 November 1958) was a Dutch painter, designer, and ceramicist. With Theo van Doesburg and Piet Mondrian he founded the De Stijl art movement. [1]