Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

The Stedelijk Museum is Amsterdam’s municipal museum of modern and contemporary art.

The Stedelijk Museum is Amsterdam’s municipal museum of modern and contemporary art. Housed in a 19thcentury Dutch Neo-Renaissance style building on Museum Square, it features a great collection of over 90,000 works of 20th– 21stcentury painting, sculpture, drawings, prints, posters, graphic designs and photography. The art on displays spans all major movements such as De Stijl, Impressionism, Bauhaus, Cubism, Fauvism, Pop Art, Expressionism, CoBrA (avant-garde in Copenhagen, Brussels, Amsterdam), and Neo-Impressionism. Highlights of the collection include Matisse’s Odalisque, Van Gogh's Les Becheurs, Picasso’s Femme nue devant le jardin and Femme assise au chapeau en forme de poisson, Newman’s enigmatic Cathedra, Pollock’s Reflection of the Big Dipper, Rauschenberg’s Charlene, and Breitner’s De Rode Kimono.