Interested About Arts, Let's Traveling To Amsterdam

Friday, August 17, 2012

Amsterdam Netherlands

As the largest city and capital of the Netherlands, Amsterdam is a great place to go on the road to college. The city itself was the first time in the 13 th Century and recorded steadily grew in power and influence for the 17 Century. This was a golden age of Amsterdam, and has been a blessing for the Arts during its richest period. Now, not only the city one of the top financial centers in the world, but Amsterdam has a wealth of art and design, art themed visits to the city to meet rich. While in Amsterdam, make sure you take time for some of the museums that are scattered throughout the city as the Rembrandt House Museum, visit the Museum and the Museum Vanabbe Cobra.


The Cobra Museum

The Cobra Museum Amsterdam

The Cobra Museum is a museum of modern art as an end in and of itself. Cobra is a European avant-garde art movement that took place from 1948 to 1951. Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam: The motion was to the cities named collaborated. Trips that take in the University Museum Sandbergplein a student, an architecturally stunning building that works by important artists of the Cobra movement and other contemporary movements, such as taking Vrij Beelden and Creatie. The museum also hosts temporary exhibitions and the collection is often supplemented by various other works of similar artists.

The Vanabbe Museum

The Vanabbe Museum Amsterdam

Once you have been to see the Rembrandt House and the works of the Cobra movement, then point to another museum of modern art, and while traveling university in the Netherlands. One of the most interesting museums, only a short drive away from Amsterdam, lies the Vanabbe Museum, situated on the River Dommel in Eindhoven. The museum was founded in 1936 and named after its founder, Henri Van Have whose collection of modern and contemporary art has been purchased by the City as part of its establishment. The museum has over 2,700 works of art, about 1,000 of which are on paper, 700 paintings, sculptures and 1,000. It boasts one of the world's largest collections of works by El Lissitzky, as well as art by Picasso and Kandinsky.

Rembrandt House Museum

Rembrandt House Museum Amsterdam

University trips to Amsterdam not only showcase the art and many excellent museums that the city offers, but also give the opportunity to see the house of one of history's most famous painters, Rembrandt van Rijn Harmenszoon - better known simply as Rembrandt. Located on Jodenbreestraat street near the center of Amsterdam, the Rembrandt House Museum is in the house where Rembrandt lived and painted for nearly 20 years. He bought the house in 1639 and remained there until 1656, when he went bankrupt. The museum was officially opened by Queen Wilhelmina in 1911 and currently holds a large collection of etchings by Rembrandt, with representations of 260 of his 290 works and a special collection of paintings on the walls of the house, most of which are pre-Rembrandt works.

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