Kunsthal

The Kunsthal Rotterdam is an art museum without its own collection in Rotterdam. It organizes around 25 temporary exhibitions a year. Various aspects of visual, performing and applied arts and other cultural topics, such as masterpieces of impressionism, history and design of lingerie, Leonardo will be considered in the exhibition planning da Vinci, Culture of the Blackfoot Indians, Oriental jewelry art or pop art

The building

The Kunsthal Rotterdam was planned in 1992 by the architectural firm Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA ), which was designed by the architect Rem Koolhaas and Fumi Hoshimo. The building is part of the museum park, in the neighborhood there are the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen and the Nederlands Institute for Architecture.

The 3300 m² of exhibition space spread over three large exhibition halls and two smaller galleries. In addition, the building houses an auditorium and a restaurant.

Art theft in 2012

In the night of 15 to 16 October 2012, from the Kunsthalle seven paintings by Lucian Freud ( Woman with Eyes Closed, 2002), Paul Gauguin ( Femme devant une fenêtre ouverte, dite la Fiancée, 1888), Jacob Meijer de Haan ( Autoportrait, between 1889-1891 ), Henri Matisse ( La Liseuse en Blanc et Jaune, 1919), Claude Monet ( Charing Cross Bridge, London and Waterloo Bridge, London, in each case 1901) and Pablo Picasso ( Tête d' Arlequin, 1971) stolen. They belong to the so-called Triton collection, a private collection of the Rotterdam businessman Willem Cordia ( 1940-2011 ). The images had been borrowed for the opened on October 7, 2012 Special Avant- gardes, which was committed within the framework of the 20th anniversary of the existence of the Kunsthalle. As announced on 17 July 2013, apparently all the paintings from the mother of the prime suspect robber Romanian Radu Dogaru for fear of discovery and for her son to protect, had been burned. The thieves had previously unsuccessfully tried to sell the paintings. Circulating about the market value of the images in the art and media estimates between 50 to 100 million euro, such as the Art Loss Register is quoted. Other information ranging up to 310 million euros. The detectable insurance value was 18.1 million euros, he was paid in February 2013 by a consortium of Lloyd's of London.

Jacob Meijer de Haan: Self-Portrait, about 1889-91

Claude Monet: Charing Cross Bridge, London, 1901

Claude Monet: Waterloo Bridge, London, 1901