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Europe's Biggest Sculpture Garden: The Kröller-Müller Museum with Dr. Alette Fleischer

Europe's Biggest Sculpture Garden: The Kröller-Müller Museum with Dr. Alette Fleischer


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Can't make this time? A video recording will be sent to all participants after the seminar.

A sculpture in an outdoor setting is quite a novel thing. From the mid-twentieth century onwards, artists like Henry Moore, Jean Dubuffet, and Ian Hamilton Finlay ventured outdoors with their work and intervened with nature. This conversation will explore the largest sculpture garden in Europe, within the Kröller-Müller Museum.

Starting in the early 1960s the museum created a special sculpture garden to display large artworks. We’ll discuss how it began as a green “exhibition space”, where trees formed the backdrop for art. A second sculpture garden, designed in the 1970s, was a site where artists themselves placed their artworks. These artists intervened with nature, and from there it was a small step towards land art.

The Kröller-Müller Sculpture Gardens showcases the development of sculptures from the late nineteenth century to the present, thereby questioning the position of art in nature and the relationship between art and nature. What is natural? What is artifice? What is the role of humankind? These are the recurrent questions that the museum, the artists, and the visitors constantly debate. Let us wander over the grounds, explore the sculptures, discuss nature and art, and art in nature. The sculpture garden is a relatively hidden jewel and deserves to be discovered.

Led by an expert on art, gardens, and landscapes, Alette Fleischer, this interactive seminar will show how modern sculpture and nature was a site for interaction. Designed to inform curiosity as well as future travels, participants will come away with an increased awareness that the boundaries of art and nature progressively disintegrated to create new art/nature forms.

Amsterdam-born Alette Fleischer has a degree in Art History and a PhD in 17th Dutch History, focusing on gardens, science, and technology. She has curated several exhibitions, publishes articles, presents lectures, and a proud Context Expert. For Context Travel, Alette has led the Rijksmuseum tours many times. Motto: staying curious is key for being a good historian.

This conversation is suitable for all ages.

90 minutes, including a 30 minute Q&A.

Customer Reviews

Based on 7 reviews
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B.K. (San Antonio, US)
Outstanding program

Sorry to be so late. This was an excellent program a place I did not previously know existed. I told a friend who travels extensively and is an art lover, to add this sculpture garden to his list of must-see places if they return to The Netherlands in the future.

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L.A. (Denver, US)
Excellent Virtual Tour of Kroller-Muller Sculpture Garden

Once again Dr. Fleischer has gifted the home-bound traveler with a wonderful way to escape to the best that The Netherlands has to offer. Her presentation was filled with lovely images of the art and gardens of the Kroller-Muller Museum balanced with well researched information about the objects that made them so much more than mere sculptures. I very much enjoy Dr. Fleischer's presentations and highly recommend them to anyone who wants to learn more about the gardens of The Netherlands.

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M.B. (Gastonia, US)
Delightful, educational tour

I am a public art consultant working on some Garden sculptures - her discussion was incredibly helpful. I may need to reach out again with more questions

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B.K. (San Antonio, US)
Wonderful experience

Prior to signing up, I was unfamiliar with this sculpture garden. Now, I would love a trip to the Netherlands that would include seeing this garden

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I.N. (Woodstock, US)
Insures that I visit

I am planning to go to the museum sometime in 2023. Now I know that I have to leave an additional several hours to visit the sculpture garden.

Customer Reviews

Based on 7 reviews
86%
(6)
0%
(0)
14%
(1)
0%
(0)
0%
(0)
B
B.K. (San Antonio, US)
Outstanding program

Sorry to be so late. This was an excellent program a place I did not previously know existed. I told a friend who travels extensively and is an art lover, to add this sculpture garden to his list of must-see places if they return to The Netherlands in the future.

L
L.A. (Denver, US)
Excellent Virtual Tour of Kroller-Muller Sculpture Garden

Once again Dr. Fleischer has gifted the home-bound traveler with a wonderful way to escape to the best that The Netherlands has to offer. Her presentation was filled with lovely images of the art and gardens of the Kroller-Muller Museum balanced with well researched information about the objects that made them so much more than mere sculptures. I very much enjoy Dr. Fleischer's presentations and highly recommend them to anyone who wants to learn more about the gardens of The Netherlands.

M
M.B. (Gastonia, US)
Delightful, educational tour

I am a public art consultant working on some Garden sculptures - her discussion was incredibly helpful. I may need to reach out again with more questions

B
B.K. (San Antonio, US)
Wonderful experience

Prior to signing up, I was unfamiliar with this sculpture garden. Now, I would love a trip to the Netherlands that would include seeing this garden

I
I.N. (Woodstock, US)
Insures that I visit

I am planning to go to the museum sometime in 2023. Now I know that I have to leave an additional several hours to visit the sculpture garden.