Remembering Holland

When you look at a river, what do you see? Remembering Holland by Jan Wouter van Reijen carries the viewer through the basin of the River Waal, past painters, sculptors and poets. Van Reijen follows the entire course of the river, from the German border to the North Sea, and creates portraits of various artists who have taken the riverine landscape as their theme. Each and every one of them sings the river’s praises in his or her own way, from extremely realistic to abstract. At every spot along the way, and each day anew, the river landscape changes: we see the water dark and colorful, glistening in late and early light, in morning dew and by moonlight, in clouds of mist and the snows of winter. Yet the water brings more than beauty alone. The flooding of the forelands and the reinforcement of the dykes in 1995 remind us of the eternal struggle of the Dutch against the rising water. See it and be borne along on a voyage of the imagination.

Threshold of the Void

Threshold of the Void

1974

Sara

Sara

2023

The River

The River

2001

Caravaggio's Shadow

Caravaggio's Shadow

2022

Masterpiece

Masterpiece

2023

The Petty Girl

The Petty Girl

1950

The Father of Art

The Father of Art

2017

The Kneeling Goddess

The Kneeling Goddess

1947

The Common Law

The Common Law

1923

Redhead

Redhead

1934

tick, tick... BOOM!

tick, tick... BOOM!

2021

Pápa Piquillo

Pápa Piquillo

1998

Carillon

Carillon

2018

The Art In Anguish

The Art In Anguish

2024

Jungle

Jungle

2017

A Monster Calls

A Monster Calls

2018

Dragonfly

Dragonfly

2016

Refulgent

Refulgent

Kind Lady

Kind Lady

1935

Nem tudo são máscaras

Nem tudo são máscaras

2024