The Noordbrabants Museum in Den Bosch has a prominent art collection on permanent loan. It concerns the entire collection of the JK Art Foundation, which is regarded as one of the most important private art collections in the Netherlands. Jos Koster, an entrepreneur from Brabant who earned his fortune by selling coffee roaster De Drie Mollen in Den Bosch, is behind this foundation, NRC writes.
The collection is very broad and contains works from the year 1500 to the present. World-famous names are represented, including Brueghel, Rubens, Mondrian, Brancusi, Picasso, Magritte, Dalí, Modigliani, Dumas and Kapoor.
The museum has been working with the JK Art Foundation for years and is delighted with the deal, described by director Charles de Mooij as “a dream come true”. The foundation regularly lends works to major museums around the world, such as the MOMA in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the Fondazione Prada in Venice and the Kunstmuseum in Bern.
big hit
From December 18, a selection of a hundred works from the collection in the museum can be seen in the exhibition The discovery of the present, a collaboration with the Singer Museum in Laren, where the exhibition can be seen until the end of November. The emphasis is on almost all major European movements of the 20th and 21st century.
The Noordbrabants Museum was renovated and expanded in 2013. Since then it has been working hard: especially the exhibition Hieronymus Bosch – Visions of a Genius in 2016 was a big hit that attracted 421,000 visitors. On average, the museum attracts between 200,000 and 250,000 visitors each year.