Collections of Het Nieuwe Instituut and the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague featured on postage stamps celebrating 100 years of De StijlCollections of Het Nieuwe Instituut and the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague featured on postage stamps celebrating 100 years of De Stijl

Today the CEO of PostNL, Herna Verhagen, presented the first set to the new mayor of The Hague, Pauline Krikke, in front of Mondrian's painting Victory Boogie Woogie.

The stamps are designed by graphic design studio PutGootink and depict works by De Stijl artists and architects such as Theo van Doesburg, Piet Mondrian, Cornelis van Eesteren and J.J.P. Oud from the collections of the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague and Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam.

Het Nieuwe Instituut has commissioned a short film about the design of the stamps. Filmmaker Marit Geluk has interviewed René Put and Brigitte Gootink about the conception and design of the stamps. The designers have taken black and white images published in the magazine De Stijl in 1917 and superimposed a playful layer of coloured planes onto them.

Watch the film

Het Nieuwe Instituut administers the State Archive for Dutch Architecture and Urban Planning, which contains drawings, photographs, posters and models from the archives of Dutch architects and urban planners. This year the archive is lending hundreds of pieces to museums for exhibitions celebrating the centenary of De Stijl. In addition, Het Nieuwe Instituut and the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague have teamed up to organise the exhibition _Architecture and Interiors: The Desire for Style_, on view in The Hague from 10 June.

The ten De Stijl centenary postage stamps are valid for domestic postage up to 20 grams. They are available from 27 March from all Bruna shops and via Collectclub.nl. They have unlimited validity.

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Note for editors

PostNL press release about the stamps
Gemeentemuseum Den Haag press release

For more information contact Justin Klein: +31 10 440 1335 or email j.klein@hetnieuweinstituut.nl