When the Hermitage Amsterdam cut ties with the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg in 2022, after Russia鈥檚 invasion of Ukraine, it could have seemed like the Dutch museum was turning away from Russian culture, or even Russian artists.
The Leiden Collection, the world鈥檚 most important private collection of paintings by revered Dutch artists of the 17th century, nears the conclusion of its tour in Amsterdam鈥攚ith a selection of works seen by more than 750,000 people across two venues.
An Amsterdam museum that severed ties with St. Petersburg's Hermitage collection after Moscow's invasion of Ukraine last year has been renamed and on Monday announced partnerships.
When early this year I plotted my trip to Amsterdam to see and review the Vermeer show, my views on Dutch seventeenth-century Gold Age painting were relatively clear.
The famous painting 'The Tower of Babel' (c.1568) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c.1525-1569), one of the highlights of the museum鈥檚 collection, is to be shown at Hermitage Amsterdam as part of the series of focus exhibitions 鈥楧utch Heritage Amsterdam鈥.
It is with difficulty that the supervisors, directors, management and employees of the Hermitage Amsterdam break ties with the Hermitage Saint Petersburg.
The Amsterdam Hermitage Art Museum, an outpost of the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, announced on Thursday it was officially 鈥渟evering ties鈥 with the Russian institution in the wake of the country鈥檚 invasion of Ukraine.
The outspoken museum chief is leading the St Petersburg ticket of United Russia, the pro-Putin ruling party, in national parliamentary elections this weekend.
The Hermitage Amsterdam museum launched a fundraising campaign to raise money for the museum which has come into financial hardship because of the corona crisis, and enable it to remain open in the future.