Seventeen works of art are handed over by the municipality of Coevorden to the Stedelijk Museum Coevorden. With the transfer, the foundation is laid at Stedelijk Museum Coevorden for a historically relevant art collection.
“All seventeen works are related to the municipality of Coevorden or the Province of Drenthe. We have long wanted to build a historically relevant art collection that reaches outside the city boundaries, but so far that has not yet been successful. Apart from a few sporadic works. It is incredibly beautiful that the municipality of Coevorden can be a museum,” says the Urdian, says the Steelijk, “says the Useful,” the Staificial. “
This includes paintings by Rudi Seidel, Colors Hemstede Color Sets, a woodcut by Nancy Dawson and a series of photos of the castle in Coevorden.
The artworks come from the collection of the municipality of Coevorden. Some works hang in the municipal buildings, while others are stored in storage. To get a good overview of this, an art and cultural-historical inventory was carried out in 2023. The full possession is thus mapped.
Because the acquisition and storage of art does not belong to the municipal tasks, the municipality is investigating new destinations. Such as giving loan or donating work to museums. One of those museums is therefore Stedelijk Museum Coevorden. They showed interest in several works and the municipality is now donating seventeen works of art, so that residents and visitors can see them.
Alderman Joost Slomp (PvdA) of Cultuur: “These artworks will be given the place they deserve in the museum. They will soon be visible to everyone and that is how we like it. We are happy that our heritage will become available for residents and visitors to Coevorden.”
The official transfer of the works is today, but they are not immediately visible to the public. “Careful research will first be done in imitation on the preliminary investigation,” said Wieling. “We are going to look at the origin of the works and the story behind it. How long that lasts depends on both the painter and the work. But we hope to exhibit the collection as soon as possible to the interested audience,” says Wieling.
What that exhibition will look like is still unclear. “We first look at whether we can present the works, but that also depends on the available space. Maybe it will be a change, thematic or permanent exhibition, but I can’t say much about that yet.”
Wieling is in any case enthusiastic about the acquisitions. “Personally, I think they are all fantastic. All seventeen works really help tell the history of Coevorden.”