galerie VAN DEN BRUINHORST

Netherlands, Kampen

Van den Bruinhorst Gallery Is an internationally oriented gallery housed in the old centre of the mediaeval Dutch city of Kampen, about an hour north-east of Amsterdam. For more than thirty years the gallery is researching, restoring, showing and selling collectible historic design of museum-quality and objects d’arts from the early 20th century. Our specialism: Modernist Design and Modern Art from the Interbellum period. The gallery was founded by Aagje Voordouw and Ad van den Bruinhorst. Ad began working as a vintage design dealer in 1992. In the years hereafter, he focused on modernist design from the interwar period. Through archival research and restoring the objects in person he became an expert in this field. This expertise was valued by his customers, the avid collectors, but also came to the attention of museum curators, documentary makers, art historians and publishers. He was asked to perform in documentary films, to participate in museum exhibitions, to write articles for art magazines and to be a speaker at symposia. Art fair PAN Amsterdam invited van den Bruinhorst to join their first design section in 2008, which he participated in ever since. The collection often contains exclusive and remarkable items which have played an important role in the development of art and design within the interwar period. Through our gallery we hope to find them a new home in a beautiful interior, private collection or museum. Our objects are regularly sought out by national and international museums. We recently delivered pieces from our collection to Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar The Netherlands, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam The Netherlands, Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam The Netherlands, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam The Netherlands, the Museum of Fine Art in Houston, Texas, U.S.A. and the Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee Wisconsin, U.S.A. Van den Bruinhorst Gallery is a member of the Royal Association of Fine Art dealers in the Netherlands, K.V.H.O.K.