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Featuring 31 paintings from Willem Jan Hoogsteder’s private collection,’The Hague-Kyiv’ was organized specially for Ukraine. The opening of the exhibition took place on May 16 in the Khanenko National Museum of Arts and was attended by both First Lady Olena Zelenska as well as Ukraine’s foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba.
After almost 80 years, a painting by Jan Baptist Weenix (1621-1660) has finally returned to the place where it belongs: the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden. In a ceremonial act on the 23rd of October, Willem Jan Hoogsteder presented the dune landscape to the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, in the presence of the Dutch ambassador Ronald van Roeden, the Minister-President of Saxony Michael Kretschmer and the Saxon Minister for Culture Barbara Klepsch. The painting had been missing since the end of World War II. Willem Jan Hoogsteder acquired the painting to donate it to the SKD.
On the eve of the exhibition ‘The inverted world of Adriaen van de Venne’ in the Zeeuws Museum (September 30, 2023 to April 21, 2024), Edwin Buijsen presented his new book ‘Ick soeck en vind’ on the versatile artist Adriaen van de Venne. He dedicated the book to John Hoogsteder, who passed away on the 8th of October 2022. His son, Willem Jan Hoogsteder, received the first copy of the publication in Middelburg.
This year the Hoogsteder Museum Foundation celebrates its tenth anniversary. The foundation was founded in 2013 on the 400th wedding anniversary of the Winterqueen, Elizabeth Stuart (1596-1662). Prof. Dr. Nadine Akkerman presented her book ‘De Hartenkoningin – Het leven van Elizabeth Stuart’ at Hoogsteder & Hoogsteder together with publisher Querido Facto.
Willem Jan Hoogsteder festively received the first copy of the publication, standing in front of the portrait of this first queen in The Hague.
Willem Jan Hoogsteder donates rare Old Master to Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden