Openbare rondleiding in samenwerking met Amsterdam Museum
Openbare rondleiding in samenwerking met Amsterdam Museum
Celebrate the Amsterdam Museum’s 100th anniversary at the Stadsschouwburg!
Internationaal Theater Amsterdam is home to the largest permanently accessible theatre collection in the Netherlands, featuring portraits of theatre makers from the past three centuries across more than two hundred paintings, photographs, sculptures, and murals. A large part of this collection is owned by the City of Amsterdam and is on long-term loan to the Stadsschouwburg through the Amsterdam Museum.
Duration 60 minutes
Language Dutch
Tour starting point Box Office / Information Hall
This public tour is organized in collaboration with the Amsterdam Museum.
The Amsterdam Collection
The Amsterdam Collection tells the story of several generations of theatre makers, from 1800 well into the twentieth century. Through the celebrated actress Johanna Ziesenis-Wattier and her contemporaries, we encounter the era of Classicism. With the golden generation of Louis Bouwmeester, Theo Bouwmeester and Esther de Boer-van Rijk, and later Mary Dresselhuys, Han Bentz van den Berg and Ellen Vogel, a tradition emerged of renowned actors who called the Stadsschouwburg their artistic home. -|-
How did visual artists portray these theatre makers? Painters such as J.W. Pieneman, Thérèse Schwartze, Lizzy Ansingh and Nicolaas Wijnberg each immortalised them in their own distinctive way, helping to shape a gallery of honour within the Stadsschouwburg. ITA continues this tradition today by adding new portraits to the collection every year.
Marysa Otte, Senior Collection Advisor at the Amsterdam Museum, and Diederik Imfeld, Coordinator of Collection & Heritage at Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, will guide you through the history of the Stadsschouwburg and this remarkable collection.