Museum Dr. Guislain in Ghent, has been founded in 1986. It is accommodated in a monumental 19th-century building. The institute is responsible for three museum collections: history of psychiatry, social photography and outsider art.

The Dr. Guislain Museum originally was not an art museum, but a museum on the history of psychiatry. Over its twenty years of existence the art collection at the museum has grown, in particular through the addition of the Dutch Collection De Stadshof, into a collection that is representative for the field of outsider art.

Museum Dr. Guislain
Jozef Guislainstraat 43
9000 Ghent, Belgium
tel: +32(0)9/216.35.95
fax: +32(0)9/216.35.35

www.museumdrguislain.be
info@museumdrguislain.be

Admission

Tuesday – Friday: 9-17h
Saturday – Sunday: 13-17h
Closed on Monday, on 24, 25 & 31 December en op 1 January

December 2011, the restoration of this large painting is in progress. 32 kilograms of oil paint !!!

www.collectiedestadshof.nl/artists/glastra-siebe-wiemer/

The canvasses of Siebe Wiemer Glastra are covered with thick layers of oil paint. They hardly can bear the heavy weight of the paint. In autumn of 2011 the large painting ‘Mary Magdalen’ has been restored.

www.collectiedestadshof.nl/artists/glastra-siebe-wiemer/

A new and enlarged website to underline the revived ambition of promoting outsider art, in the Netherlands and abroad. Since Museum De Stadshof in Zwolle had to close down in 2001, the Museum Dr Guislain in Ghent is the home base of this Stadshof art collection.

Foundation De Stadshof gives selections of its collection on loan for exhibitions elsewhere and also organises exhibitions itself. Collection De Stadshof strives for realisation of a new platform for outsider art in the Netherlands.

Outsider art to us is an umbrella term, comprising naive art, art brut, visionary art, art singulier, self-taught art, folk art, etc.

Search

You can quest for artist names, or you can just go to Collection and click an art work. Furthermore every work of art has some tags attached, collected in the green tag cloud. By clicking you will select all the works bearing the same quality or feature. And of course you can use the browser.

Language

Language switch at any moment, not  for the website as a whole, but per item. Texts in English and Dutch are not necessarily identical.

Alexandrine, Herman Bossert, Aaltje Dammer, Willem van Genk, Pieter Hagoort, Lies Hutting, Bertus Jonkers, Jan Kervezee, Jaco Kranendonk, D. Landsman, Leo Neervoort, Ank van Pagée, Hans Scholze, Josef, Selhorst, Paula Sluiter, Ulkje Sytsema, Jo Toonen, Henk Veenvliet, Martin Visser, Johannes Weissenbruch, Roy Wenzel.

info: www.collectiedestadshof.nl/collections/dutch-drawing/

23 April – 28 August 2011

‘All About Drawing. 100 Dutch Artists’ provides insight into the development of drawing in the Netherlands from the 1960s up to the present day. Diana Wind, director of the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam and artist/curator Arno Kramer selected a hundred artists for whom drawing is the most important discipline in their oeuvre. From Collection De Stadshof a large drawing and collage ‘Brooklyn Bridge’ of Willem van Genk has been selected.

The book entitled ‘All About Drawing. 100 Dutch Artists’ approaches drawing more broadly than the exhibition does. Pietje Tegenbosch and Hans den Hartog Jager sketch the international context and lead us along the boundaries of drawing. In her essay, Maria Barnas demonstrates how closely the signature – writing – lies to drawing. And Renée Steenbergen writes about the perception of drawing in both private ad museum collections. Brief texts on all the artists have been compiled by Yasmijn Jarram, Nicole Theeuwes, Wilma Sütö, Rutger Wolfson, Arno Kramer and Diana Wind. The book costs € 34.50.

Info: http://www.stedelijkmuseumschiedam.nl/en_GB/exhibitions/23/all-about-drawing.-100-dutch-artists

A new initiative of Stichting Collectie De Stadshof is the editing of a Newsletter, two or three times a year. You will find the latest news about exhibitions of outsider art, (naive art, art brut, visionary art, art singulier, self-taught art, folk art) and items about Collection De Stadshof like acquisitions, publications, restauration activities, etc.
Sign up at the Homepage: ‘Newsletter’.

To name a few: Donald Pass, Pavel Leonov, Herman Bossert, Bonaria Manca, Markus Meurer, Hans Scholze, Saï Kijima, Chris Hipkiss, Carlo Zinelli, and others.

• http://www.collectiedestadshof.nl/kenmerken/acquisition-2011/
• http://www.collectiedestadshof.nl/kenmerken/acquisition-2010/
• http://www.collectiedestadshof.nl/kenmerken/acquisition-2009/

Exhibition in Museum Dr Guislain: February 5 – May 8, 2011.
Afterwards the exhibition will be travelling to Dolhuys Haarlem, Prinzhorn Sammlung, Heidelberg.