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SKY!
IN DUTCH ART SINCE 1850
21 June - 7 September 2014
Jan Sluijters
October sun, Laren, 1910
Oil on canv as
Frans Hals Museum | De Hallen Haarlem
Photo: Thijs Quispel
Andreas Schelfhout
A dune landscape with Haarlem in the
distance, 1847
Oil on panel
Collection Simonis & Buunk, Ede
Carel Willink
View of a city, 1944
Oil on canvas
Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen
This summer De Hallen Haarlem is staging a major exhibition
about the sky in Dutch art since 1850. The museum will be
showing a wide range of interpretations of the sky: from late
Romantic artists like Schelfhout, by way of Impressionists like
Weissenbruch and Mesdag, to contemporary artists like John
Körmeling and Guido van der Werve. Some 150 paintings,
sculptures, photographs and films show how inspiring the sky
was and still is as a subject for artists.
From Mesdag to the Present
Colossal cloud formations, double rainbows, romantic,
moonlit nights and flaming orange sunsets. The sky has been
a magnificent subject for artists for centuries. The ‘inventor’ of
the sky in painting was the seventeenth-century Haarlem-born
artist Jacob van Ruisdael. He was the first to allow the
legendary Netherlandish cloudy skies to dominate his
landscapes. After artists in the Romantic Movement had
shown a marked preference for storm clouds, sunsets and
flashes of lightning, Impressionists like Weissenbruch and
Mesdag went on to accentuate space and atmosphere. These
nineteenth-century artists based their work on studies done en
plein air: a selection of these will also be on show in the
exhibition. Post-Impressionists like Jan Sluijters and Leo
Gestel sought new styles and forms. Landscapes by cloudlover Jan Voerman are unique, while Carel Willink also
painted entirely individual, dramatic skies. Later in the
twentieth century Cobra artists and other Expressionists –
Corneille, Brands, Constant and Gerrit Benner – also
concentrated on the sky. More recently, artists like Marinus
Boezem, JCJ Vanderheyden, Guido van der Werve and Anne
de Vries take the sky as the point of departure for work with a
conceptual basis.
The exhibition is not chronological. It is arranged thematically
by such subjects as ‘cloudy skies’, ‘rainbows’ and ‘moonlit
nights’, so that works of art from entirely different periods and
movements can engage in dialogue with one another.
New Work
The most recent work in the exhibition is a photographic piece
by Berndnaut Smilde. He created a fleeting artificial cloud in
one of De Hallen Haarlem’s galleries and captured it in a
photograph especially for SKY!
Jan Wiegers
Landscape with rainbow at Davos, 1947
Oil on canvas
Private collection
Photo: Arend Velsink
De Hallen Haarlem Summer Series
SKY! in Dutch Art since 1850 is the eighth exhibition in the De
Hallen Haarlem Summer Series focusing on modern art. As
usual it is accompanied by a beautifully illustrated catalogue.
The publication costs €15 in the Frans Hals Museum and De
Hallen Haarlem shops. The exhibition is one of three in a
series that includes A Portrait of Holland, about the Dutch
landscape, and To the Sea. SKY! has been made possible
through the generous support of Dr Marijnus Johannes van
Toorn & Louise Scholten Stichting.
Skies in the Frans Hals Museum
The Frans Hals Museum will be showing a number of
seventeenth-century paintings with the sky as the subject from
22 May to 28 September 2014.
About De Hallen Haarlem
Berndnaut Smilde
Nimbus De Hallen, 2014
Digital C-print
Photography: Cassander Eeftinck Schattenkerk
De Hallen Haarlem stages a series of exhibitions about
topical developments in decorative art three times a year,
providing a platform for artists from the Netherlands and
abroad with the accent on video art. The major annual
summer exhibition, based on the museum’s own collection of
early modern art, is aimed at a wide public.
De Hallen Haarlem is a beneficiary of the BankGiro Lottery.
Note for editors:
Guido van der Werve
Nummer negen, The day I didn't turn with the
world, 2007
HD video on minimac, 9 min.
Frans Hals Museum | De Hallen Haarlem
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Juliètte Jongma,
Amsterdam
The press images are available from our website.
Press information
Annelieke van Halen
[email protected]
+31 (0)23 5115794
Frans Hals Museum - De Hallen Haarlem - Postbus 3365 - 2001 DJ - Haarlem
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