Sideshow of VAN DOESBURG and the international avant-garde. With Germaine Kruip, Milou Rabe, Jan Maarten Voskuil and Guido Winkler. The show runs until January 3 2010. Again, an extra reason for bringing Leiden a visit. Location: Marktsteeg 1, only one block away from De Lakenhal. Opening will be done by Meta Knol, De Lakenhal's current director.

Picture: Jan Maarten Voskuil (left) and Guido Winkler. 


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In close cooperation with Tate Modern in London, Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal in Leiden presents a major exhibition on Theo van Doesburg (1883-1931), and this artist’s influence on the international avant-garde. Energetically and enthusiastically, Van Doesburg broke new ground as the initiator, ambassador, promoter and organiser of the new art. The 300-plus works by some 80 artists – among whom El Lissitzky, László Moholy-Nagy, Gino Severini, Kurt Schwitters, Hans and Sophie Arp, Hans R...
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