Amsterdam 2024

 Hi,

I'm back! I can't believe I am doing this blog every day. It is fun to go back over the days and try to reconstruct them but still....

Anyway, enjoy.

The day started at Beppe Kessler's studio. She is a well-known Dutch artist who both paints and makes jewelry. She has never been educated in metalsmithing techniques and has her own way.

Beppe gave us a talk about her work.

This is her newest work.

This was a curious addition to the studio. It was high up on a wall.

Then we went to the H*Art Museum to see a Kandinsky show

Our guides. I was with the male guide who was extremely passionate about work in the show.

Early Kandinsky- He came from a wealthy family and was educated as a lawyer but chose painting as a career. He traveled the world with a female companion named Münter.

Dutch Folk scene

Beautiful scene in a park

Münter was a woman he met in Germany and traveled with for several years. His wife, who was back in Russia, was left behind. The rest of this talks about his move to Abstraction which this show documented beautifully.

Painted in 1909 Improvisation 3

Picture with a black Arch 1912

This was painted in 1914 right before WWII started and you can see the aggravation in it.

Invited by the Bauhaus in 1921 to do a large commission in Berlin. The graphics were lost and never made it there. However, these wall pieces were recreated in 1977 to show how they would have looked.

Somewhere along here, he fell in love with a much younger woman who became his wife until he died

Kandinsky's kitchen table

The art from the photo above. It hung above their kitchen table

This was a painting that hung above his deathbed in 1944. It was painted in 1942 during the Second World War.

Lunch at the museum

Then a few of us wanted to see the François van den Bosch collection so we went to a special storage place and met up with a few more people including Noon Passama- the latest winner of the award -shown in the photo below

A few pieces from the collection were laid out for us. You can also see Ruudt Peters in this image.

Lin Cheung

Lauren Kalman- the only American in the collection

Chequita Nahar

Manfred Bischoff

Marcel Wanders

Then we went into the actual storage unit and saw the work in the drawers. 

This is mostly the famous François van den Bosch bracelet.

Big Necklace is by Paul Derrez

Round necklace is by Gijs Bakker

Long laid-out necklace is by Bernhard Schobinger

Here the group is studying the things in the drawer. Ruudt was the best at guessing whose work it was.

That was the end of another enjoyable day. It was a free afternoon and evening for most of the group but for me, it was just a free evening so I went back to Incanto for dinner and had another big salad. 

Until we meet again.

Hugs,

Susan