Hoge Veluwe - Kröller-Müller Museum Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller

The original private collection, which was transferred to the ownership of a foundation in 1928, is housed in the older part of the museum. Advised by an art expert of the time, H. P. Bremmer, Mrs Kröller-Müller became a very active collector, with the object of assembling a collection which should give a general impression of the development of painting. This involved including works both by the "realists" and by the "idealists", who gave expression to the concrete phenomena of reality in accordance with their own subjective vision. Thus the collection - which by 1933 amounted to some 4,000 drawings, 275 works of sculpture and several hundred pictures - was not in any sense intended as a historical survey of art. It ranges from medieval art (Lucas Cranach, Hans Baldung Grien, Gerard David) to Asian, Greek and Dutch ceramics. The main emphasis, however, is on work of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and its fame rests principally on its 280 paintings and drawings by Van Gogh, mainly from his stays in The Hague, Brabant, Paris and Provence ("Bridge at Arles").

The following is merely a selection of the museum's treasures:

Symbolism and Art Nouveau: Odilon Redon, James Ensor, Jan Toorop;

Impressionism and Expressionism: Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Auguste Renoir;

Pointillisme: Georges Seurat, Paul Signac;

Cubism: Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Fernand Léger, Juan Gris;

De Stijl: Piet Mondriaan, Bart van der Leck.

The collection also includes works by other artists including Camille Corot, Jean-François Millet, Matthijs Maris, Honoré Daumier and Johan B. Jongkind.

The extension to the museum displays sculpture, reliefs and drawings since 1950 by Joseph Beuys, Marino Marini, Vasarély, Caro, Philip King, Louise Nevelson, Jan Schoonhoven and Jesus R. Soto.

The Sculpture Garden has works by Jean Dubuffet, Claes Oldenburg, Henry Moore, Chaim J. Lipchitz, Mark di Suvero, Auguste Rodin, Lucio Fontana, André Volten, Carel N. Visser, Barbara Hepworth, Evert Strobos, Kenneth Snelson, Fritz Wotruba and Aristide Maillol.