free opening
christoffel & kate bisschop, june 17th
Celebrate the free opening of Christoffel & Kate Bisschop: longing for the past with us on Saturday the 17th of June in the Fries Museum! Click here to reserve your ticket.
chrisfoffel & kate bisschop
june 17th
program
The exhibition can be visited for free on Saturday the 17th of June. The Hindelooper choir Auke Wybesz welcomes visitors with Frisian sea shanties. You can also take a free tour, have your nails painted in Hindelooper painting style with designs by Roosje Hindeloopen or make your own paper flower corsage. The Embassy of Hindeloopen also opens that day in the hall and shop window of the museum. Here you will become acquainted with the culture, history, traditions, language, crafts and inhabitants of Hindeloopen. At set times there are extra activities to follow at the embassy. The programming is created in close collaboration with, among others, the residents of Hindeloopen, Museum Hindeloopen and Roosje Hindeloopen.
about the exhibition
This year the Fries Museum dives into the personal life and art of Christoffel Bisschop (1828-1904), who was born in Leeuwarden, and his English wife Kate Bisschop-Swift (1834-1928). With his nostalgic Dutch scenes, Christoffel brings times long gone to life. Kate, a painter and collector herself, shares his love for the past and cleverly knows how to draw attention to their work at home and abroad, even in royal circles. The exhibition shows how the longing for the past determined the life and work of the artists, and how everything eventually came together in the quirky town of Hindeloopen.
This exhibition is made possible by the Municipality of Leeuwarden, Frysk Blockbuster Fonds, Wassenbergh-Clarijs-Fontein Stichting, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds in the name of Marten Orges Fonds, Leeuwarder Ondernemers Fonds, Stichting Ritske Boelema Gasthuis, Stichting Sint Anthony Gasthuis, Stichting Het Nieuwe Stads Weeshuis , Stichting Siebolt Foundation, Boelstra Olivier Stichting and Stichting Gifted Art.
The Fries Museum is co-financed by the Province of Fryslân, the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, the VriendenLoterij, Ir. Abe Bonnema Foundation and the friends of the Fries Museum.