location – Nieuwkoop

location – Nieuwkoop

location – Nieuwkoop Jan Andriesse regards The Village of Noorden near Nieuwkoop as one of Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch’s most beautiful paintings. It marks a turning point, he says: ‘You still see Vermeer on the left, but Mondriaan’s diamonds are starting to sparkle on...
museum – Mauritshuis

museum – Mauritshuis

museum – Mauritshuis Arguably the best museum in the Netherlands for paintings of Dutch light, with one of the finest collections of 17th-century art. The Mauritshuis was built in 1640 for Johan Maurits, Count of Nassau-Siegen, after a design by the two most famous...
locations – Marken / Monnickendam

locations – Marken / Monnickendam

locations – Marken / Monnickendam Our baseline. Throughout the making of the film, the crew returned to this location day after day to film the scene at different times, from sunrise to sunset, and in weather conditions ranging from ten degrees below freezing in a...
museum – Hofwijck

museum – Hofwijck

museum – Hofwijck Former residence and country home in Voorburg, designed and commissioned in 1642 by the architect, poet, art connoisseur, and composer Constantijn Huygens. His son Christiaan lived in the house until his death in 1695. Christiaan Huygens was one of...
museum – Gemeentemuseum Den Haag

museum – Gemeentemuseum Den Haag

museum – Gemeentemuseum Den Haag The Gemeentemuseum The Hague, built in 1935 by the architect Berlage, is much loved for its architecture alone. But inside the collections are so vast that you really could spend the whole day there! You will come across the work of...
location – the Hague / Voorburg

location – the Hague / Voorburg

location – the Hague / Voorburg The HagueWe filmed work by Mondriaan and the Hague School painters in the Gemeentemuseum, Hendrik Willem Mesdag’s seascapes in Panorama Mesdag, and views of the Hofvijver and the Mauritshuis. VoorburgThis is where the makers of Dutch...