In this programme, producer Martha Hawley goes in search of her great uncle, Edwin Hawley, known in her family as Uncle Ned. Born in 1881, he left for China as […]
Monthly Archives: October 1999
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Part 1: From Antiquity to the 19th Century In spite of the great riches they have left behind and the immortality that many of them have achieved through their […]
In 1999, the famous Mauritshuis Museum in The Hague hosted one of its most spectacular exhibitions: the self-portraits of one of the greatest painters of all times, Rembrandt van Rijn […]
The Netherlands as seen through the eyes of some of the foreigners who were living here in the late 1990’s. Jacqueline Aflick, Australia Jos Wibisono, Indonesia Leila Zacharia, Lebanon Lois […]
In 1999, the famous Mauritshuis Museum in The Hague hosted one of its most spectacular exhibitions: Rembrandt’s Self-Portraits. Few artists in history have painted themselves so often. Why? If what […]
There is no shortage of literature on Hitler and the Third Reich. A recent study mentioned 120,000 pieces of work on Hitler alone. Even so, only a handful are full, […]
To mark the 80th birthday of Karel Appel, one of Holland’s best-known and most controversial contemporary artists, Mindy Ran paints a vivid, impressionistic portrait in this special edition of the […]
Bertine Krol’s very first edition of Dutch Horizons, a weekly programme on the Netherlands, features three items: Bertine interviews in his workshop Dutch master violin builder Jaap Bolink. The report […]