Kröller-Müller State Museum
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▪ museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands
Dutch Rijksmuseum Kröller-müller,
collection in Otterlo, The Netherlands, primarily of late 19th- and 20th-century art, especially paintings by Vincent Van Gogh. The museum is named after Mrs. H.E.L.J. Kröller-Müller, the institution's principal benefactor.
The collection is housed in a building designed by the Belgian architect Henry van de Velde that was constructed between 1937 and 1954. It also contains collections of 16th–18th-century Dutch, Italian, and German paintings, European drawings and prints, furniture, Chinese objets d'art, and Chinese, Delft, Egyptian, French, and Greek ceramics.
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