Description of the collection

Gepubliceerd op 05-11-2008
Laatst gewijzigd op 05-11-2008

The ICN collection has a long prehistory. The origin of objects varies from public purchases from various periods to donations, legacies, recovered works of art (including the Nederlands Kunsbezit collection (NK = Netherlands Heritage Collection), existing works that were bequeathed to the state after the Second World War) and works that came into the possession of the state through the Beeldende Kunstenaarsregeling (scheme to provide additional opportunities for employment in the visual arts). As a result of these varied origins, the ICN collection has a very diverse composition and runs from archeology to modern visual arts.

Composition

Our collection can be divided into visual arts and applied arts. The visual arts collection includesold and modern paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures. In the applied arts collection, there are fragments of architecture, furniture, jewelry and glass objects, ceramics, metals objects and textiles.

Strong subcollections

The ICN collection has some very sizeable subcollections. Most of them are described in separate file catalogues. Unique subcollections are for example:

• painting: family portraits (17th-20th century), interiors, landscapes, seascapes, religious scenes from the 17th-19th century;
• works on paper from 1850 to the present day;
• 20th century sculpture;
• jewelry from the second half of the 20th century;
• ceramics, including a lot of Chinese porcelain and Delftware (in part from the collections Bal and Baron Van Verschuer), tiles (Lambert van Meerten collection) and free postwar ceramics;
• Dutch earthenware from the period 1890-1940 (including a large collection of De Porceleyne Fles), crockery (everyday crockery) from 1945-1990;
• Van Rede collection (chiefly paintings and furniture from the second half of the 19th century);
• furniture, including many 19th century pieces and an extensive collection of Dutch furniture from 1900-1940;
• inventory Jachthuis St. Hubertus (St. Hubertus Hunting Lodge, including H.P. Berlage’s furniture).

Artists

Works by individual artists, (part of) whose estate has been bequeathed to the State of the Netherlands, are also part of the ICN collection. Examples are:
• Theo van Doesburg (1883-1931);
• Leo Gestel (1881-1941);
• Dolf Henkes (1903-1989);
• Albert Plasschaert (1866-1941);
• Johan Marinus de Vries (1892-1982);
• Willem Witsen (1860-1923).