Dutch King opens Kandinsky exhibit in Amsterdam's H’ART Museum

King Willem-Alexander will open a Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) exhibition at the new H’ART Museum in Amsterdam on Tuesday. It is the museum’s first exhibit since it changed its name and broke ties with the Hermitage Museum in Russia.

The H’ART Museum’s exhibit is in collaboration with Centre Pompidou - one of the Amsterdam museum’s permanent partners for the coming years. The Paris art museum has the most complete Kandinsky collection in the world and has agreed to loan the H’ART Museum 60 works for the exhibit, including Mit dem Schwarzen Bogen (1912), Improvisation III (1909), and Bild mit Rotem Fleck (1914).

The 60 artworks together “provide an impressive overview of the artist’s oeuvre. From his early figurative, almost impressionist work to the signature abstract paintings, which later evolved into more organic and hybrid forms on canvas,” the H’ART Museum said. “Visitors will get to know the artist and his work through a unique collection, photography, film and his biography.”

The museum also asked two contemporary artists - Bink van Vollenhoven (1983) and Søren Siebel (1981) - to highlight some specific storylines in Kandinsky’s work. They’ll “uncover Kandinsky’s current significance and inspire audiences to look at the collection with different eyes.”

King Willem-Alexander will open the exhibit on Tuesday afternoon. It will be open to the public on Wednesday, June 19, and will be on view until Sunday, November 10. Tickets can be bought here.

The H’ART Museum used to be called the Hermitage. Then Queen Beatrix opened the museum in 2009. Willem-Alexander and Maxima, then still the Prince of Oranje and Princess Maxima, attended the opening.