Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen has been collecting Surrealist art since 1965. In something over half a century, what began with a single purchase has now grown into a world-class core collection with works by Dalí, Magritte, Man Ray, De Chirico, Ernst and many others. Surrealism, which started as a literary movement, is not a school, but rather a collective attitude or lifestyle in which automatism, chance and the subconscious are key. The museum's collection includes paintings, sculptures, o...

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen's Surrealism collection is world famous, but this Boijmans Study is not devoted to the oeuvres of great names in the canon like Salvador Dalí and René Magritte. Instead, it tells the story of the idiosyncratic finds made by the Dutch collectors Laurens Vancrevel and his wife Frida de Jong. Long before museums started to take notice, the couple had collected art and poetry by then relatively unknown Surrealists. Over the years, they let themselves be guided by c...

De collectie surrealisme van Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen geniet wereldwijd bekendheid. Toch is deze Boijmans Studie nu eens niet gewijd aan de oeuvres van gecanoniseerde namen als Salvador Dalí en René Magritte. In plaats daarvan wordt het verhaal verteld van de eigenzinnige vondsten van het Nederlandse verzamelaarsechtpaar Laurens Vancrevel en Frida de Jong. Lang voordat de musea er oog voor hadden verzamelden zij kunst en poëzie van op dat moment nog relatief onbekende surrealisten uit...