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The Kröller-Müller Museum is a national art museum and sculpture garden, located in the Hoge Veluwe National Park in Otterlo in the Netherlands. The museum, founded by art collector Helene Kröller-Müller within the extensive grounds of her and her husband's former estate (now the national park), opened in 1938. It has the second-largest collection of paintings by Vincent van Gogh, after the Van Gogh Museum. The museum had 380,000 visitors in 2015.

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History

The Kröller-Müller Museum was founded by Helene Kröller-Müller, an avid art collector who, being advised by H.P. Bremmer, was one of the first to recognize Vincent van Gogh's genius and collect his works. In 1935, she donated her whole collection to the state of the Netherlands. In 1938, the museum, which was designed by Henry van de Velde, opened to the public. The sculpture garden was added in 1961 and the new exhibition wing, designed by Wim Quist, opened in 1977.

Collection

The museum has a considerable collection of paintings by Vincent van Gogh, such as Café Terrace at Night, Sorrowing Old Man (At Eternity's Gate) and a version of 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, William Degouve de Nuncques and Pablo Picasso.

Sculpture garden

The Kröller-Müller Museum is also famous for its large sculpture garden, within the forest park, of more than Template:Convert and one of the largest in Europe, with a fine collection of modern and contemporary sculptures. The garden reflects Helene Kröller-Müller's conception of a symbiosis between art, architecture and nature. The collection includes works by Auguste Rodin, Henry Moore, Jean Dubuffet, Mark di Suvero, Lucio Fontana, Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, Fritz Wotruba, Joep van Lieshout and many more.

Administration

Lisette Pelsers has been museum director of the Kröller-Müller Museum since 2012.

The museum was the 12th most visited museum nationally in 2013.

Selected list of sculptures as of 2023

1:4 = 4x1 (1986) by André Volten | 200x238x95, Ø 19x16 (fountain) (1996) by Mirosław Bałka | 43 Roaring forty (1988) by Carl Andre | 56 Barrels (1968) by Christo | Aldo van Eyck Pavilion (1965) by [[]] | Amphithéâtre (2005) by Márta Pán | Angel torso (unfinished) (1923) by Jacob Epstein | Angel with ten thousand wings (1988) by Shirazeh Houshiary | Animal Head (1956) by Henry Moore | Backsteinskulptur (1988) by Per Kirkeby | Battery For Five Fingers (1995) by Jan van Munster | Berger de Nuages (1953) by Jean Arp | Blob and Bone (2002) by Adam Colton | Buried paintings (1994) by Chohreh Feyzdjou | Buste van een man (1911) by George Minne | Cicero (2000) by Cornelius Rogge | Close to the earth (1961) by Magdalena Wiecek | Column (1968) by André Volten | Complexes of a young lady (1960) by Sorel Etrog | Compositie voor bankgebouw te Rotterdam (1955) by Willem Reijers | Composition (1933) by Otto Freundlich | Composition sur un plateau (1956) by Shamaï Haber | Concetto spaziale 'Natura' (1959) by Lucio Fontana | Cube (KMM) (2014) by Ewerdt Hilgemann | Cubic construction (1968) by André Volten | Curved form (Trevalgan) (1956) by Barbara Hepworth | Curved form with inner form (Anima) (1959) by Barbara Hepworth | Danseres (1952) by Oscar Jespers | De la mer, le passage... (1979) by Jean Amado | De verslagen overwinnaar (1957) by L.O. Wenckebach | Demeure 3 (1960) by Étienne Martin | Die schwarze Schale (1989) by Armando | Dual form (1965) by Barbara Hepworth | Dubbelvorm nr. 4 (1958) by Carel Visser | Echo van de Veluwe (2003) by Chris Booth | Een verzameling van ... (1981) by Lawrence Weiner | Elegy III (1966) by Barbara Hepworth | Embleem (1937) by Henry Van de Velde | Espérance (1945) by Joseph Csaky | Faggio di Otterlo (1987) by Giuseppe Penone | Femme accroupie (1882) by Auguste Rodin | Figur I (1958) by Ödön Koch | Figure (Archaean) (1958) by Barbara Hepworth | Forme infinie (1949) by Willy Anthoons | Geknotte boom (1963) by Rein Draijer | Gelaat en profil (1933) by John Rädecker | Gewei (1928) by John Rädecker | Gezichten () by Lucy Tassiuk | Giuditta e Oloferne (1932) by Arturo Martini | Grafsteen (2001) by Daniël Groen | Grand double (1962) by Alicia Penalba | Grande bagnante n. 3 (1957) by Emilio Greco | Grosse Figur (1958) by Joannis Avramidis | Grosse Figur I (1961) by Hans Aeschbacher | Hockende Frau (1950) by Fritz Wotruba | Homme et femme (1963) by Eugène Dodeigne | Hoofdstuk I, II, III, IX, XIV, XV, XVII, XVIII (2010) by Jan Fabre | Igloo di pietra (1982) by Mario Merz | Il grande busto (1956) by Mario Negri | Jardin d'émail (1974) by Jean Dubuffet | Jongenskop (1918) by Joseph Mendes da Costa | Joris met de draak (1941) by Willem Reijers | Kijk Uit Attention (1986) by Krijn Giezen | Kop van een vrouw (Josefa) (1939) by Charlotte van Pallandt | K-piece (1972) by Mark di Suvero | Kubus (1975) by André Volten | Kubus en zijn stapeling (1967) by Carel Visser | La conquista (1954) by Umberto Mastroianni | La doppia faccia del cielo (1986) by Luciano Fabro | La grande Pénélope (1912) by Antoine Bourdelle | La plate-bande (1988) by François Morellet | l'Air (1939) by Aristide Maillol | Landschaps-zonneproject (1979) by Piet Slegers | Large Auschwitz (1967) by Carel Visser | Le chant des voyelles (1931) by Jacques Lipchitz | Le cri (Le couple) (1928) by Jacques Lipchitz | Le grand homme de la nuit (1954) by Germaine Richier | le témoin (1991) by Herman de Vries | Liefde (1917) by Joseph Mendes da Costa | Magisch vierkant (1963) by Cornelius Rogge | Medea (1964) by Eduardo Paolozzi | Meisjeskop (1923) by Albert Termote | Melancholie (2006) by Armando | Meneer Jacques (1955) by L.O. Wenckebach | Mobile home for Kröller-Müller (1995) by Joep van Lieshout | Moment (1997) by Albert van der Weide | Monitor (1961) by Kenneth Armitage | my poetry is the world ... (1974) by Herman de Vries | Needle Tower (1968) by Kenneth Snelson | Niobe (1951) by Constant Permeke | Nuraghe (1983) by Pjotr Müller | One (1988) by Richard Serra | Otterlo mist (2001) by Isamu Wakabayashi | Oval form (Trezion) (1962) by Barbara Hepworth | Pacaric (1974) by Lika Mutal | Palissade (1973) by Evert Strobos | Phoenix (1953) by Willem Reijers | Phyllotaxis (1987) by Sjoerd Buisman | Picadores (1965) by Umberto Mastroianni | Pleinbeeld (1998) by Carel Visser | Prive sur mobi (1986) by Bertrand Lavier | Project voor het Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller (1984) by Stanley Brouwn | Relatum (1979) by Lee Ufan | Relief (1960) by Fritz Wotruba | Replacement Piece (1969) by Ger van Elk | Resonance (1994) by Chen Zhen | Rietveld Pavilion (1954) by [[]] | Ritratto di Franca (1952) by Marcello Mascherini | Rockswarm (2001) by Bill Woodrow | Sacred grove; five columns for the Kröller-Müller (1980) by Ian Hamilton Finlay | Schoven II (1957) by Rein Draijer | Schwarz/weisse Doppelfahne (1985) by Reiner Ruthenbeck | Sculpture flottante (1960) by Márta Pán | Secrets of the waters (for Mnemosyne) (2008) by Ana Maria Tavares | Semafoor (1967) by David van de Kop | Sept (1993) by Eugène Dodeigne | Shelter (1974) by Tony Andreas | Single form (Eikon) (1937) by Barbara Hepworth | Six-sided tower (1993) by Sol LeWitt | Soleares-tristes (2002) by Pjotr Müller | Sphere with inner form (1963) by Barbara Hepworth | Spin out, for Robert Smithson (1972) by Richard Serra | Squares with two circles (1963) by Barbara Hepworth | St. Sebastian III (1958) by Eduardo Paolozzi | Stehende Figur (1958) by Fritz Wotruba | Stehende Frau (1947) by Fritz Wotruba | Striding man II (1960) by Robert Oliffe Richmond | Tempeltje van het dagelijks leven (1986) by Pjotr Müller | Tentenproject (1975) by Cornelius Rogge | Termote Meisjeskop]] | The cry (1959) by Isamu Noguchi | The library (1988) by Arno van der Mark | The overturned tomb (1994) by Huang Yong Ping | The twenty-four men in white (1988) by Fortuyn/O’Brien | Torso of James Ensor (1913) by Rik Wouters | Twee Heugemer pony's (2008) by Tom Claassen | Twee koppen (No/unknown value) by Hildo Krop | Two adjacent pavilions (1978) by Dan Graham | Two Piece Reclining Figure No. 2 (1960) by Henry Moore | Two vertical, three horizontal lines (1965) by George Rickey | Uba Tuba (1978) by André Volten | Vandaag en Morgen (1918) by Hildo Krop | Verkeerswezen (1955) by Willem Reijers | Vernal figure (1957) by Ralph Brown | View (2001) by Reindert Wepko van de Wint | Vliegend (1957) by Wessel Couzijn | Vooroverhellende torso (1932) by Oscar Jespers | Vrouwenkop () by Jules Vermeire | Wachtende engel (1957) by Willem Reijers | Wandering Rocks (1967) by Tony Smith | Wave (1958) by Pearl Perlmuter | Wielkie brzuchy (1968) by Alina Szapocznikow | Zittende vrouw (1954) by Han Wezelaar | Zonder titel (1988) by Carel Visser | Zonder titel (1992) by Leo Vroegindeweij | Zonder titel (1992) by Sol LeWitt | Zonder titel (2000) by Heringa/Van Kalsbeek | Zuil van zon en gebladerte (1963) by Cornelius Rogge | (quietly, to the memory of Mia Visser) (1977) by Dan Flavin | La Saison des Fêtes (2016) by Pierre Huyghe | Le récit (1948) by Joseph Csaky | Madonna met kind (1928) by John Rädecker | Mijnwerker () by Johan Polet

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