Memorials: Liberation in pictures

Date:
Time: 10:00 - 17:00
Location: RKD - Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis

Visit the RKD - Netherlands Institute for Art History in The Hague and discover the fascinating exhibition on commemorative monuments, celebrating 80 years of freedom.

This exhibition shows the genesis and creation process of a number of well-known monuments by four sculptors: Mari Andriessen, Willem Reijers, Charlotte van Pallandt and Fred Carasso. Besides archive material from the RKD, special preliminary studies from the collection of Museum Beelden aan Zee are included in the display.

To give an impression of the contents of the archives, a temporary exhibition has been set up at the RKD with a small selection of the archive material. The focus is on a specific aspect of the post-Liberation period. There was a great need for monuments to keep the memory of the war alive and to commemorate the victims. In total, some 3,900 memorials arose in the years 1945-1965. This unprecedented number of monumental, autonomous sculptures in public spaces meant a large flow of commissions for artists and a boost for sculpture in the Netherlands.

On 7 November, Dr Matisse Huiskes will hold an in-depth RKD Talk on Fred Carasso.