Mondrian and De Stijl
The Dutch abstraction that changed world design.
John Lewis Marshall โ CC BY-SA 4.0 ยท Ank Kumar โ CC BY-SA 4.0 ยท GodeNehler โ CC BY-SA 4.0 ยท GodeNehler โ CC BY-SA 4.0
The consensus order: Van Gogh first (world-unique), Rijks (Dutch art history), Stedelijk for the modern specialist. All three in a day is possible but tiring โ two in depth beats three in a rush.
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The Stedelijk is Amsterdam's museum of modern and contemporary art, the third side of the Museum Square after the Rijks and Van Gogh: a historic building (1895) with a white modern extension Amsterdammers call "the bathtub" for its odd shape โ the building itself a statement of the museum's mission: the new in dialogue with the old. Its collection is among the world's great twentieth-century holdings: the Dutch Mondrian and the De Stijl movement, Matisse, Picasso, Chagall and Kandinsky, Expressionism, Pop Art, and the modern design the Netherlands excelled at โ chairs, posters and objects become icons. A collection that perfectly completes its neighbours: the Rijks for the Golden Age, Van Gogh for the transition, the Stedelijk for what came after. For the modern-art lover an unmissable side; for others less pulling than its neighbours, but the building alone rewards a look.
The Dutch abstraction that changed world design.
The white modern extension โ bold architecture itself.
Chairs and posters become symbols of Dutch modernism.
Museumplein 10, 1071 Amsterdam