DAN Heritage Tours Spring and Summer 2014 Jan 2014 | Page 8

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Study Weekend to Rotterdam and Amsterdam
Thurs 27 - Mon 31 March
Four Nights B&B at the Best
Western Art Hotel in
Rotterdam. Adrian Sumner
will guide us around the
exhibitions.
Thursday - Coach travel
from Chester, Hartford and
Northwich to Rotterdam,
via Dover and Ferry.
Friday morning - visit to
Mauritshuis Masterpieces at
the Gemeentemuseum Den
Haag. Five highlights of the
Mauritshuis collection
including Rembrandt’s
renowned self-portrait and
Johannes Vermeer’s Diana
and Her Nymphs, plus two
portraits by Anthony van
Dyck and a history painting
by Peter Paul Rubens.
After lunch travel to back
to Rotterdam to visit the
Museum Boijmans Van
Beuningen for a journey
through the history of art.
Dutch and European
masterpieces provide a
comprehensive survey of
art from the early Middle
Ages to the 21st century,
from Bosch, Rembrandt and
Van Gogh to Dalí and
Christo.
The Kunsthall Museum has
an exhibition of The Second
World War in 100 objects
and an extensive
retrospective of the Finnish
design brand Marimekko.
Saturday - travel to
Amsterdam Rijksmuseum

then free time for van
Gogh or newly redisplayed
Stedelijk museum of
modern art. After ten years
of rebuilding, renovation
and restoration, the
Rijksmuseum has opened
its doors again. For the
first time in history the
museum underwent a
complete transformation of
both its building and the
presentation of its
collection.
Sunday - drive to Utrecht
for visit to Centraal
Museum. The highlight is
the collection of paintings
by the Utrecht
Carravagists, such as
Gerard van Honthorst and
Hendrick ter Brugghen.
Both of them travelled to
Rome in the early 17th
century to study the works
of the Italian master
Caravaggio. Along with the
mannerists Joachim
Wtewael, Abraham
Bloemaert, Paulus Moreelse
and renaissance-painter
Jan van Scorel, the
carravagists give the
collection in Utrecht an
international allure.
The Rietveld Schröderhuis
in Utrecht is an icon of the
Modern Movement in
architecture and an
outstanding expression of
human creative genius in
its purity of ideas and
concepts as developed by
the De Stijl movement.

at Otterlo. The museum
has a considerable
collection of paintings by
Vincent van Gogh, such as
The Potato Eaters, making
it the second-largest
collection of Van Gogh
paintings in the world
(after the Van Gogh
Museum in Amsterdam).
Apart from the Van Gogh
paintings other highlights
include works by Piet
Mondrian, Georges-Pierre
Seurat, Odilon Redon,
Georges Braque, Paul
Gauguin, Lucas Cranach,
James Ensor, Juan Gris, and
Pablo Picasso. The KröllerMüller Museum is also
famous for its large
sculpture garden, within
the forest park, of more
than 75 acres and one of
the largest in Europe, with
a fine collection of modern
and contemporary
sculptures.
Monday – return home.
Price - £444/person (based
on sharing a twin room) £30
single room supplement.
Includes travel and 4 nights
B&B. All other meals and
entry fees extra.
For more information, or to
book a place, contact the
DAN Office on 01606 41597,
or download the booking
form at danarts.co.uk

Then drive to Kroller Muller
Museum and sculpture park
DAN Community, The Library, Witton Street, Northwich CW9 5DR