The Museum Domburg and the ICEAC Domburg have dedicated a memorial exhibition to the artist Jacoba van Heemskerck, which from its start in July was a great success, was supposed to end in September and then was extended until December 10, 2023. Before it started, a “Call for Paintings” by artists who are inspired by…
From October 12 to 15, the Annual General Meeting of the Federation for European Artists’ Colonies euroart took place in Murnau, Germany. The Federation has 96 members representing 46 artists’ colonies from 12 countries. The MTVP Museum Domburg and the Municipality of Veere are both members and were represented by Arnold van Houtum, a board member of euroart,…
WE WILL EXTEND UNTIL INCL. DECEMBER 10, 2023! The Jacoba exhibition is going great and is appreciated by young and old. On one of the quieter moments, Ianthe together with her mother showed her favourite painting, the oil painting Flower Still Life from around 1910. It was bought at the first or second Domburgsche Exhibition by a…
A very special portrait of Jacoba van Heemskerck …
At the commemorative exhibition for Jacoba van Heemskerck, the visitor can follow Jacoba’s development in about thirty works, from the realism of a Boereninterieur via the Luminism and Cubism created in Domburg to her special expressionism and designs for stained glass windows. Before visitors are in De Zaal, they pass through De Galerij. There are…
To her great pleasure, our curator Francisca van Vloten was able to acquire a Zeeland work by the Belgian artist Emile Claus (1849-1924) for the Museum collection at a German auction on May 15, 2023. Between about 1873 and 1912, Claus regularly resided in Domburg. It is a painting of a vast meadow landscape on…
On Saturday 18 March, the very successful opening of the Spring Exhibition ‘SWEET HARMONY. Six contemporary artists in harmony with nature‘ of the Museum Domburg took place in the midst of some 130 enthusiastic guests. The opening was performed by Bert Tuk, alderman for Culture of the municipality of Veere. With Jackie Bongers, Ineke de Brouwer, Johan Elenbaas, Rose de…
We were very pleased with the visit of the General Director and the Heads of various Departments of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam on 17 March. Fascinating exchanges of views over tea and coffee about Zeeland and European connections, the classical and contemporary artists’ colonies and the museum’s new construction and renovation plans were followed by a…
On Saturday, February 25, Frits Sissing received the symbolic first copy of Forever Indebted A real Mondrian or a clever fake by Francisca van Vloten for a very interested audience in the museum, about her fascinating research into an alleged Mondrian. It is the first book in the book series of the International Centre for…
A TV crew from the VriendenLoterij recently surprised the employees of the MTVP Museum Domburg with a surprise announcement. Surprise for Museum Domburg! A TV crew from the VriendenLoterij recently surprised the employees of the MTVP Museum Domburg with a surprise announcement.