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| 2855 Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam |
The Rijksmuseum (National Museum) is located at the Museum Square in the boroughAmsterdam South, close to the Van Gogh Museum, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, and the Concertgebouw. It was founded in The Hague in 1800 (during the Batavian Republic) and moved to Amsterdam in 1808, where it was first located in the Royal Palace and later in the Trippenhuis. The current main building was designed by Pierre Cuypers and first opened its doors in 1885. In 2013, after a ten-year renovation, the main building was reopened by Queen Beatrix.
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| 2856 Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam Portrait of Marie Jeanette de Lange (1900) by Jan Toorop |
The museum has on display 8,000 objects of art and history, from their total collection of 1 million objects from the years 1200-2000, among which are some masterpieces by Rembrandt, Frans Hals, and Johannes Vermeer. The museum also has a small Asian collection which is on display in the Asian pavilion. Among the painters with works exposed in museum is Jan Toorop (1858-1928), a Dutch-Indonesian painter, who worked in various styles, including Symbolism, Art Nouveau, and Pointillism. His early work was influenced by the Amsterdam Impressionism movement.
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