A different view of the world

Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture for a modern world at the Kröller-Müller Museum of Otterlo, The Netherlands

Until 17 April 2016

This autumn, the Kröller-Müller Museum honours the English Barbara Hepworth (Wakefield 1903-St Ives 1975) with a major retrospective, fifty years after her last exhibition at the Kröller-Müller in 1965.

Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture for a Modern World places emphasis on the prominent role that Hepworth played in the international art world and the context in which her work was created and presented, from the studio to the landscape. The exhibition includes approximately one hundred works, about seventy of which are by Hepworth and the rest by other artists. It also includes a large amount of new documentary material from the recently opened Hepworth archive. The exhibition follows Hepworth’s career from her oldest preserved sculptures from the nineteen twenties: abstracted figures carved from marble and local English stone. These early sculptures are shown alongside work by her predecessors and contemporaries, from Jacob Epstein to Henry Moore.

GOOD TO KNOW:

The Kröller-Müller Museum boasts the second largest Van Gogh collection in the world: almost 90 paintings and over 180 drawings. Furthermore, you will also find masterpieces by modern masters such as Claude Monet,

Georges Seurat, Pablo Picasso and Piet Mondriaan, and remarkable temporary exhibitions.

Contacts & infos: http://info@krollermuller.nl