From the Dennenweg in The Hague, diagonally opposite the gallery of the HAAGSE KUNSTKRING, the artists' association of which I am a member, I went to the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague

Here in the garden of the municipal museum in The Hague there are 4 museums: The Photography Museum, The Municipal Museum, The Museon and The Omniversum, In the photo above you see a small version of the statue that can also be seen below

The completely boarded up street in The Hague that I encountered for the first time and which represented a very special image for me.

The very new residential tower on the left with the very old hoist crane on the right that has not been in use for a long time, seen from the street where I did my last care work with people with disabilities. (2019-2020 at DE INZET on the Neherkade)

And finally, the picture with the beautiful autumn colours of The Hague that I passed by on my bike.

Vincent van Gogh was, together with Rembrandt van Rijn, one of the most important painters of the Netherlands. So it is not without reason that there is a museum in Amsterdam that is known as the "Van Gogh Museum". I also find it very special that Vincent actually did not want to become a painter. No, he wanted to become a preacher (just like his father and grandfather) and he actually did that for a while. But the so-called "church board" had fired him because he was not businesslike enough and then he was no longer allowed to preach. Then, out of his true love (God), he focused entirely on what was given to him as a very special talent. I heard from Chinese students (from Xamen) that they even had to literally copy Vincent van Gogh paintings at their Chinese art academy. I find it funny to think that I myself came to believe because of two Chinese people who both no longer wanted preachers. For this, see evt. at https://www.lsm.org/  or at one of my own webpages that I recently created at: https://haagsekunst.jouwweb.nl/lsm 

Through a friendly guard I got into conversation with, I was touched by 2 of her most favorite works at the place where she stood guard. She also made art herself. When she showed me the 2 works (above and below), I could be touched by them myself. Her name was Bruna.

At the last work that Bruna showed me I came across these very large photo works again (below). I looked at them again and suddenly saw a great depth in them and wanted to take a photo of the 4 works after all.

Anton Heyboer was a beloved teacher of mine at the art academy. It wasn't so much his work that caught my attention, but especially what he wanted to show us. I always thought that was very special. It wasn't until many years later that I started to appreciate his work a little more.

Mill in Sunlight

Mill in Sunlight is a painting by the Dutch painter Piet Mondriaan from 1908. The image shows the Winkelse mill near Abcoude. The work marks Mondriaan's transition to an avant-garde and later abstract way of working. The painting is in the collection of the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag

Piet Mondrian is known in the Netherlands as an abstract painter. This painting is therefore from a time before his abstract period.

I was fortunately able to capture these 2 very small works well. Actually they were so small that you normally wouldn't want to look at them for that long. By taking a photo of them I think it will be more visible to more people.

THERE IS STILL HOPE

On October 27, 2024, I watched a report by a certain Jane Goodall and made some images of it in order to be able to spread it.

Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall (born 3 April 1934) is a British anthropologist and biologist specializing in ethology and primatology. Goodall is best known for her studies of the social and family life of chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania, which she conducted from 1960 onwards.[1] She is the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and the youth program Roots & Shoots.