Restoration of Nebuchadnezzar

05.01.2012 News
Glastra, Siebe Wiemer; Nebukadnezar, oils on canvas, 205x126 cm, SH950

December 2011, the restoration of this large painting is in progress. 32 kilograms of oil paint !!! www.collectiedestadshof.nl/artists/glastra-siebe-wiemer/

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Restoration of Mary Magdalen

05.01.2012 News
Glastra, Siebe Wiemer; Maria Magdalena, oils on canvas, 173,5x98,5 cm, SH10858

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/

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WWW.OUTSIDERART.NL ⇒ WWW.COLLECTIEDESTADSHOF.NL

22.06.2011 News

Welcome to collectiedestadshof.nl the new website of Collection De Stadshof Foundation. 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 [...]

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Drawings from De Stadshof Collection

24.04.2011 Exhibitions

As a contribution to the event ‘All About Drawing’ in the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam and 50 other Dutch art institutions, we show some 50 drawings of Dutch artists from Collection De Stadshof. Alexandrine, Herman Bossert, Aaltje Dammer, Willem van Genk, Pieter Hagoort, Lies Hutting, Bertus Jonkers, Jan Kervezee, Jaco Kranendonk, D. Landsman, Leo Neervoort, Ank [...]

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All About Drawing, including Willem van Genk

23.04.2011 Exhibitions Publications

All About Drawing. 100 Dutch Artists 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 [...]

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Newsletter

16.04.2011 Exhibitions News Publications

Sign up for the Newsletter 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 [...]

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Acquisitions 2007-2011

10.04.2011 News
Kijima, Saï; Mister Dracula, 2008, doll, driftwood, h. 52,5 cm

This collecting overview presents work purchased during the last three years and provides an insight into the range and diversity of work by artists belonging to the canon of outsider art, as well as outsider artists living and working today. Acquisitions are made possible with the generous support of individuals, trusts and foundations. To name [...]

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Ovartaci – Supreme fool

22.02.2011 Exhibitions
Ovartaci, untitled, papier mache, gouache, 218x30 cm

Louis Marcussen has lived more than 56 years in the psychiatric institute of Aarhus. Under the pseudonyme Ovartaci, Danish for ‘supreme fool’, he created his extreme world of beauty. Exhibition in Museum Dr Guislain: February 5 – May 8, 2011. Afterwards the exhibition will be travelling to Dolhuys Haarlem, Prinzhorn Sammlung, Heidelberg.

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