location – our baseline Joseph Beuys argued that the light in Holland lost its unique brightness as a result of land reclamation in the Zuyder Zee in the 1950s. The makers of Dutch Light established a baseline on the dike linking the villages of Marken and...
museum – Teylers Museum Teylers Museum was named after Pieter Teyler van der Hulst (1702-1778), a prosperous cloth and silk merchant in Haarlem, and a sponsor of the arts and sciences at the time of the Enlightenment. Inspired by the belief that knowledge was the key...
location – the Zuyder Zee Aerial footage over the Zuyder Zee and vicinity Joseph Beuys described the Zuyder Zee as a vast mirror of light, the eye of Holland. Seeing is...
location – Scheveningen The dunes and the sea at Scheveningen, with the grey light that the Hague School painters loved so much, the light that brought them...
location – Rijksmuseum The treasure chest of the Netherlands, with the country’s largest collection of 17th-century paintings. Dutch Light shows some of the highlights of the collection and visits the museum’s repositories....
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