De Nollen

The “landscape of the imagination” is located in the old inland dune area of De Nollen in Den Helder. It is an existing art project that has been included in the Sense of Place programme. What once started as an artistic experiment in this old, neglected area has grown into the life’s work of artist R.W. van de Wint (1942-2006). For twenty-five years, he worked here on paintings, steel sculptures and monumental structures that are interwoven with the dune landscape. The location and the images together give meaning to the whole. The work is both complicated and simple, possesses great vitality and completely captivates the visitor, both visually and physically. In a world that is changing ever more rapidly, the artist wanted to evoke a world of elementary images that have remained the same for centuries: light, the transition from light to dark, the experience of colour.

This garden created by Van de Wint is comparable to Henry Moore’s sculpture garden near London, Ian Hamilton Finlay’s Little Sparta in Scotland and the art collection on Insel Hombroich near Neuss.

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About R.W. van de Wint

Reindert Wepko (Ruud) van de Wint (1942-2006) retired to the old inland dune area of De Nollen in 1980, after leaving behind a career of exhibiting in European museums. De Nollen became his life’s work. Van de Wint is known for his paintings in the House of Representatives and ceiling paintings in Groningen City Hall and Queen Beatrix’s working palace, Paleis Noordeinde. He also created some thirty-five sculptures that are scattered throughout the Netherlands. In 2002, an exhibition of his work was organised at the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo: R.W. van de Wint. Clair-obscur. Seven sculptures.

The area is closed to the public in winter. For more information and current opening hours, please visit: www.projectdenollen.nl

Locatie: 1822 BB De Nollen.