OUTSTANDING INTERNATIONAL LOANS

Ammodo supports the Rijksmuseum in the realization of major exhibitions (2019 – 2024) to bring masterpieces from all over the world to the Netherlands. In 2024, this includes the Frans Hals exhibition. Previous exhibitions made possible with Ammodo’s support were Vermeer (2023), Remember me (2021), Caravaggio-Bernini (2020), and Rembrandt-Velázquez (2019).

Thanks to the outstanding loans made possible by Ammodo, Dutch and international exhibition-goers can experience paintings, sculpture and other artistic treasures rarely or never before shown in the Netherlands. In this way, Ammodo supports not only the Rijksmuseum but also the development of art and culture throughout the country.

FRANS HALS. WAY AHEAD OF HIS TIME.

Extraordinarily productive, innovative, entertaining and a little rough around the edges: Frans Hals was one of a handful of painters who defined the 17th century. His distinctive, freewheeling style of painting became so influential that it’s easy to forget that he was its founder. So after thirty years, it’s high time for a new retrospective. The selection of fifty key works include paintings from the Rijksmuseum’s own collection and a number of special loans. These include The Laughing Cavalier from the Wallace Collection in London, a work that normally never travels, as well as Malle Babbe (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin) and the group portrait The Banquet of the Officers of the St George Civic Guard (Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem), which will be seen outside the city of Haarlem for the first time ever.

VERMEER

Johannes Vermeer is internationally renowned for his tranquil indoor scenes, unprecedented use of bright, colorful light, and convincing illusionism. Never before have so many paintings by Vermeer been brought together: with 28 works from around the world, the exhibition in 2023 was the largest solo exhibition ever held on the Delft master. Moreover, many paintings were shown for the first time to the Dutch public, including three works from the Frick Collection in New York and the recently restored *Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window * from the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden. Other highlights included *Girl with the Pearl Earring * from the Mauritshuis in The Hague and Woman Holding a Balance from The National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. The exhibition will continuously remain available for a visit from home, thanks to the support of Ammodo.

REMEMBER ME. MORE THAN 100 RENAISSANCE PORTRAITS, FROM DÜRER TO SOFONISBA

Around 1500, the first true flourishing of portraiture began in Europe. Powerful emperors, flamboyant aristocrats, and affluent citizens; an increasing number of people sought to immortalize themselves in the 15th and 16th centuries. With more than 100 portraits, this exhibition showcased how these subjects, naturally, allowed themselves to be depicted in the most favorable light possible. Through loans from museums across Europe and the United States, the exhibition brought together international masterpieces by famous artists such as Holbein, Dürer, Memling, and Titian. One of the highlights was Petrus Christus' Portrait of a Young Woman, which, for the first time in almost thirty years, was loaned to a museum by the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin.

Caravaggio – Bernini. Baroque in Rome

Tracing the emergence of the European Baroque in Rome, this exhibition’s main protagonists were the painter Caravaggio (1571-1610) and the sculptor Bernini (1598-1680). It included more than seventy masterpieces by these two artists and their contemporaries, loaned by museums and private collections around the world. From Bernini’s early and rarely shown Bacchus to Caravaggio’s captivating Narcissus, the exhibition illustrated how this revolution in western art arose in Rome and eventually left its mark across all of Europe.

Rembrandt – Velázquez. Dutch and Spanish Masters

In a spectacular conclusion to the Rembrandt Year in 2019, the Rijksmuseum presented Rembrandt – Velázquez, an exhibition featuring some of the finest works by famed 17th-century masters of Holland and Spain. No fewer than 16 major paintings from the Museo Nacional Del Prado briefly exchanged their usual home in Madrid for Amsterdam, thus for the first time uniting masterpieces by Diego Velázquez, Francesco Zurbarán and Giuseppe de Ribera with Dutch icons Rembrandt van Rijn, Johannes Vermeer and Frans Hals.

Ammodo and the Rijksmuseum have an established partnership, previously mounting the successful exhibitions Late Rembrandt and Hercules Segers in 2014 and 2016. Ammodo is a non-profit organization that initiates and supports projects for the advancement of art, science and scholarship.