Hungry for culture? Check out our short lunchtime tours, designed to fit around your busy schedule! The tours provide a brief but focused encounter with artworks and objects from our collection, with plenty of time left over to grab a bite to eat.
Take 20 minutes out of your lunch break and sample the cultural fare on offer! Be sure to drop by the Gëlle Klack afterwards and get 10% off your lunch.
- Free
From the late 1920s onwards, Ouwersloot was regarded as a typical Dutch example of the Nieuwe Zakelijkheid, with a certain preference for night scenes. The present small collection of works by Jan Ouwersloot shows street scenes from his native Amsterdam, where he settled in 1923. His contemporaries, Gerrits and Johan van Hell, painted prosaic street scenes in a more stylised form. Ouwersloot's paintings are more realistic. His subjects are always topographically correct. Ouwersloot's Night View of the Leidseplein in Amsterdam (1934) is a particularly striking composition, embodying all the qualities represented by this artistic movement. Ouwersloot's composition is a rare example of a work from the Neue Sachlichkeit that is not a portrait, by an artist whose biography offers no moral obstacle to being considered for the Luxembourg National Collection.
