WEST COAST ART
COLLECTION ONLINE
Looking for an artist, a specific painting or just feel like getting to know our collection? Enter a term into the search field. You can also look around in the thematic selections we’ve presented below. Enjoy!
ABOUT THE
WEST COAST ART COLLECTION
The Museum Kunst der Westküste is focused on the art of the North Sea countries Norway, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands. The collection’s works explore the theme of “Sea & Coast”, concentrating primarily on the period from around 1830 to 1930. International contemporary art is also represented in the collection.
Discover Norwegian landscape painting with pictures by artists such as Johan Christian Dahl, Peder Balke and Edvard Munch as well as works from the Danish artists’ colony in Skagen, including those of by Anna and Michael Ancher, P.S. Krøyer and Christian Krohg. The German impressionist Max Liebermann, who regularly spent time along the Dutch coast, is extraordinarily well represented. Dutch romantics like Andreas Schelfhout or the protagonists of the Hague School, such as Henrik Willem Mesdag or Jozef Israëls, also place this coast before our eyes. Piet Mondrian and Jan Toorop herald the arrival of modern art. Germany’s North Sea coast can be experienced in the expressionist works of artists like Max Beckmann, Erich Heckel and Emil Nolde.
The development of the online collection is currently still in progress. We are working on enabling you to digitally survey the entire collection in future. If you have any questions or suggestions, please write to us at sammlung@mkdw.de.
