Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam lends thirteen artworks to five Dutch museums as part of De Stijl centenary year

Amsterdam, 10 May 2017 – Alongside three presentations exploring unexpected facets of De Stijl, this year the Stedelijk will also lend a large number of artworks for exhibits highlighting 100 years De Stijl. This year, the Stedelijk is lending thirteen works from its collection to five museums. As of 6 May, Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue III by Barnett Newman will feature in The Colours of De Stijl at Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, an exhibition that zooms in on the De Stijl artists’ use of colour and how, after WW II, artists continued to research the autonomous power of colour. Since acquiring the work in 1969, the Stedelijk has only lend the painting on three previous occasions. Other iconic works from the Stedelijk holdings by Josef Albers, Jasper Johns, Yves Klein and Robert Ryman will also be included in the same presentation. After the Amersfoort exhibition, the Jasper Johns artwork Untitled travels to the Royal Academy of Arts in London, followed by the Broad Museum in Los Angeles.

Other museums to receive works on loan from the Stedelijk as part of the De Stijl centenary year are Museum Dr8888, where work by Wobbe Alkema and Bart van der Leck are on show in De Stijl van Drachten, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, where work by Mondriaan can still be seen this month in Piet Mondriaan and Bart van der Leck, and Centraal Museum Utrecht where work by Theo van Doesburg, Bart van der Leck and the Witteveen High Chair by Gerrit Rietveld (purchased jointly by Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Centraal Museum Utrecht) are highlights in the exhibition Rietveld’s Masterpiece: Long live De Stijl! Earlier this year, a presentation at the Rijksmuseum featured work by Wim Crouwel and Bart van der Leck from the Stedelijk collection.