The second-largest collection of van Goghs in the world, a huge modern sculpture garden, a supporting cast of impressionists, futurists, symbolists, and others – and all this situated in a nature park between Apeldoorn and Arnhem.
The museum is the result of the work of Helene Kröller-Müller, a heiress of vast fortune who spent it acquiring over 11 500 works of art between 1907 and 1939. From the beginning the goal was to create a home-museum of art developments since 1850. Above are Paul Signac’s ’Portrieux, le phare, Opus 183’ (1888, left) and Georges Seurat’s ’Le Chahut’ (1890, right).
She was particularly enchanted by van Gogh and bought plenty of his early works in addition to the later, more famous ones. Above left ’Pont de Langlois’ (1888) and right ’Portrait of Joseph Roulin’ (1889). Other modern European artists are also well represented. Below left is Gino Severini’s ’La Tour Eiffel’ (1913) and right Renoir’s ’Le Clown Musical’ (1868).
The sculpture garden is enormous as these things go – below left Jean Dubuffet’s ’Jardin d’émail’ (1974) and right, Oswald Wenckebach’s ’Meneer Jacques’ (1955).
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