Kröller-Müller Museum - De Hoge Veluwe National Park

The ideal place to escape the mass of tourists that swamp Amsterdam in the summer lies about one hour away from the dutch capital. It is a place where you can enjoy nature while not having to do without culture. The Köller-Müller Museum, known for its Van Gogh collection, is located in the middle of the De Hoge Veluwe National Park. Visitors can explore the park with its forests, sand and moor landscapes on white bicycles that can be rented for free. It is also possible to reach the museum and its sculpture garden with the bikes.



The displayed art is based on the collection of Helene Kröller-Müller. At the beginning of the 20th century, she and her husband acquired nearly 11500 works of art, including about 90 paintings by Van Gogh as well as other modern artists, such as Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso and Piet Mondrian. The museum opened its doors to the public in 1938. It is a design by the Belgian architect Henry van de Velde. 1961 followed the opening of the sculpture garden, consisting of around 160 sculptures and installations of artists such as Aristide Maillol, Jean Dubuffet, Dan Flavin and Pierre Huyghe.

Foam Amsterdam - Helmut Newton Retrospective

Helmut Newton’s photographs are known for their cold and voyeuristic view towards the portrayed person, mainly long-legged and usually scantly clad women. A retrospective of the 1920 in Berlin born artist, who celebrated his breakthrough in the 1970s with photographs he produced on commission for the French Vogue, takes over the entire building of the Amsterdam based Photography Museum Foam until the 4th of September.

After taking a closer look at the approximately 200 photographs, which mainly belong to the collection of the Helmut Newton Foundation in Berlin, it becomes clear that it would be superficial to assert that Newton reduces the image of the women merely to a fetish object for men. Newton considered himself a feminist who strove for a new and modern female image. The period of the female emancipation movement and sexual liberation of the 1970s and 1980s is reflected in Newton’s photography. Newton celebrates strong women in his photographic work, dealing with issues such as power, violence and eroticism.