Dutch photography from the 18th century to the present
Jimbo Noels
1987
An interview with Jimbo Noels, a contemporary climate artist who uses his photographs in collages and paintings for increased impact. I purchased several of his art works and had a long conversation with this sympathetic world traveler.
Emma Couperus
1885 - 1979
Having never deigned to touch a camera herself, Couperus nonetheless created a peculiar photographic oeuvre.
Els Kavelaar
1935 - 2004
Psychiatrist Els Kavelaar proved that photography can be used as a tool to make diagnoses. She had her clients pose in front of the camera and asked searching, personal questions. Using a motor drive, she made countless photos for psychiatric evaluation.
Work from Henricus Engelen on show in the Van GoghHuis
—30 September 2017
Photographers from the Collection in the Dutch Photography Museum
—14 June 2017
Recent acquisition
—8 January 2017
Page from a new photo album in the collection reading: Taking photographs is also an art
Ine Wiegers
1897 - 1965
Working in complete isolation, Ine Wiegers created an unusually original oeuvre in fashion photography. Her insights are as fresh today as they were 60 years ago.
Piet Treep
1870 - 1934
As an architecture painter he was a failure, but as a producer of postcards Piet Treep was one of the most important representatives of his time. Many of his cards can be seen as a combination of genres: group portraits and architecture.
Henricus Engelen
1783 - 1847
Van Gogh’s influence on modern culture is stronger than ever and it is hard to overestimate his reputation. Nevertheless, an in-depth investigation of a newly discovered manuscript suggests that his influence goes much further than has been imagined up until now. This so-called Engelen-manuscript by an unknown biologist from Van Gogh’s hometown has the potential to send shockwaves through the art world with the proof that Van Gogh’s genius was so powerful that it is/was not constrained to temporal constants and influenced at least one other person who preceded Van Gogh by several years.
Alex Heuvelkering
1966
In the eighties, Alex Heuvelkering studied chemistry at the University of Leiden. He also completed various autonomous photo projects, none of which has been made public. The publication of the work of this autodidact may therefore be rightfully called a scoop.
New monograph: Party Photographer
—9 October 2014
Julia Luudens
1954
Julia Luudens was one of the first ‘post-modern’ photographers at the end of last century that staged her photographs. As an autodidact, she played no role in the world of photography and worked completely intuitively. That may explain why her work is so different from other photography of the seventies.
Pep Jansen
1931 - 1969
Pep Jansen probably is the only dedicated party photographer in the history of Dutch photography. His intimate and complex images breathe the Amsterdam party atmosphere of the sixties.
Retrospective De Bock installation shots
—9 November 2013
Retrospective De Bock in Walden Affairs
—13 October 2013
On Friday October 25, my exhibition Great men will open in Walden Affairs. In one of the rooms work from the De Nooy Collection will be shown: a retrospective exhibition of the work of Théophile de Bock. Many of his photographs and paintings will be presented. It is the first comprehensive exhibition of De Bock in over a century.
Elbertus Donkerwolk
1810 - 1859
One of the most underrated figures in Dutch history may well be the hairdresser/photographer/entrepreneur Elbertus Donkerwolk. This charming figure excelled in many areas and he was one of the first known portrait photographers in the Netherlands: his earliest successful recordings date from 1842! The fact that his name is now forgotten may perhaps be due to the fact that he was above all a hairdresser.
Jos de Munk
1856 - 1923
The albumen prints shown here, I found on the street in a shoebox with old photos. They were put there to be taken away as trash. Through the owners of the pictures, I managed to trace their creator: Jos de Munk, tobacco seller from Rotterdam. These are most likely the only surviving photographs of this quiet man, who, in his spare time, appears to have been a passionate amateur naturalist and photographer.
Recent acquisition - August 2012
—12 September 2012
Recent acquisition - April 2012
—6 May 2012
Painting from the The Hague School-painter Théophile de Bock that I bought at marktplaats.nl for 375 euro. This painting appears to be a confirmation of my theory that he used photographs as visual examples for his work (see also Théophile de Bock on this website).
Anja van Buuren
1946
In the seventies, Anja van Buuren photographed her most intimate moments and those of her friend Merel. They had an open relationship with different partners. She recorded her life in photographs and diary notes.
Recent acquisition - March 2012
—8 April 2012
Sparrows in a garden, exactly 90 years ago. I found those pictures on a second hand market. Each photograph 6×9 cm.
Installation views exhibition GEMAK, The Hague (until April 29)
—28 March 2012
Johanna Vliegenthart
1947
One of the most notable photographers of the seventies was the paranormal Johanna Vliegenthart. She combined her extraordinary gifts with inventive photographic methods. The pictures shown here, I found at the annual paranormal fair in The Hague.
Adriaan Paauw
1765 - 1792
The most spectacular discovery in my career as a photo collector was without doubt the work of Adriaan Paauw, most likely the first inventor of photography. During a routine visit to the weekly antique market in The Hague, one of the dealers showed me a tin box containing a well-thumbed copy of an eighteenth-century scientific literature classic – the Chemische Abhandlung von der Luft und dem Feuer by the Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele. The box also included photographic artefacts which I recognized as some kind of salt prints and two notebooks dated 1788 and 1789 by a certain Adriaan Paauw. Intensive study of this material has shown that the salt prints by Adriaan Paauw are the earliest photographs ever made.
Fien Huijbregts
1910 - 1977
Fien Huijbregts has had only a short career as photographer. Around 1930, she formed part of the surrealist movement in Brussels. In Dutch photography, surrealism is essentially non-existent, and Huijbregts is an important exception. Her work is informed by her remarkable ability to see a different reality in ordinary objects.
Part of the De Nooy Collection exhibited in GEMAK
—26 February 2012
Some years ago, at a printing company in Schiedam, I found the lost edition of Haarscherp, a feminist photo magazine from 1977. Haarscherp has never been published, but, as it appears now, the first number has been printed. Shortly before publication was due, the editors got mixed up in a violent quarrel and the magazine was abandoned. I bought the entire run and present the work of several photographers from the magazine in this exhibition.
Théophile de Bock
1851 - 1904
Théophile de Bock is still relatively famous because he assisted with the Panorama Mesdag, was regularly mentioned in the letters of Van Gogh and because several streets in The Netherlands bear his name. As an independent painter however, he has been practically forgotten. The discovery of this series of photographs could well change this situation since it sheds a completely new light on his painting activities. Moreover, De Bock appears to be one of the few nineteenth-century landscape photographer in the history of Dutch photography.
Yvon de Korte
1948 - 1979
Besides photography, Yvon de Korte also made movies, drawings and paintings. At the time of the Dutch feminist photomagazine Haarscherp (1977), she had just won an important film prize. Shortly after, she died in an accident.
Sammy Hegontvlug
1937
Socially critical female photographer who published, amongst others, in the feminist photo magazine Haarscherp.
Jacques Oostvogels
1796 - 1849
I purchased this remarkable series of cyanotypes, made around 1845, from a distant relative of Jacques Oostvogels. Study of the photographs and research into the life of their maker is in full swing.
Anoniem
1968 - 1971
Photographs from an incomplete album that I bought on a second hand market.
Egbert van Zwan
1975
The computer scientist Egbert van Zwan photographed because he needed work for his scientific research in the field of image recognition. When it appeared that the computer models he developed did not function the way he envisioned, he gave up his scientific project as well as his photographic efforts.
Eddy Zuidhoek
~1915 - 1987
After the death of Eddy Zuidhoek, I bought his remaining photographs via his sister, who had no interest in his work. Zuidhoek was the only thought photographer in the history of Dutch photography.
Eline Portman
1879 - 1928
On the internet I found a series of more than three hundred remarkable photographs. The theme of most of them was the family, however it also contained a fairly uniform series of outdoor portraits. This aroused my curiosity and via the seller of the photographs I tracked down the originator, Eline Portman.