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The Kröller-Müller Museum is a national art museum and sculpture garden located in the Hoge Veluwe National Park in Otterlo. It opened in 1938, and contains the collection of Helene Kröller-Müller, to which each subsequent director made additions, each in his or her own way.
Although the museum’s collection consists mainly of modern and contemporary art and is internationally known for owning the second largest collection of works by Vincent van Gogh, it also includes artworks from the Northern and Southern Netherlands from the period 1350–1800.
Highlights from the collection of Old Masters include a Vanitas by Pieter Claesz, a Fish Still Life by Pieter van Noort, Slaughtered Pig by Adriaen van Ostade, and Flowers in a Basket and on a Silver Tazza by Clara Peeters.
The collection contains about 1,000 drawings from before 1850, many of them from the Northern or Southern Netherlands, by artists including Herman Saftleven, Jan van Goyen, Cornelis Dusart, Pieter de Molijn, Abraham Bloemaert, Jacob de Wit, Hendrick Goltzius, Christina Chalon, and Pieter Jansz Saenredam.
Finally, the museum owns a modest collection of Delftware tiles and porcelain.
Related CODART publications
Renske Cohen Tervaert, “Aged Well: Three Centuries of Drawings from the Kröller-Müller Collection”, CODARTfeatures, December 2021.