We bring Claude Monet in Zaandam at your home! Our volunteers are telling you about their favorite painting. Below you find all stories, with English subtitles. And we are hoping to see you in the future, while we have so much more to tell.
Houses is all colors, back then in the year 1871 and nowadays in 2020. Jann tells how the Zaan region got all these colors and invites the new Claude Monet to visit Zaandam!
De Zaan near Zaandam number 2. Liesbeth tells you what she sees and feels watching this painting. And is this picture really totally gone?
De Zaan and the IJ in 1871. Bert takes you on the boat trip of Claude Monet and also talks about the here and now.
When Lou got as final assigment ‘duplicate an artist’ for the professionial school for Photography, his choice was easily made!
Claude Monet, true life artist. Monet inspires Renée to notice more, to sense. Just think about that for a bit…
Camille Doncieux, Claude Monet’s wife, is shown in a number of world-famous paintings. And also in the paintings that Monet made in Zaandam in 1871. Marcel tells the story.
Claude Monet painted many windmills. Joanne explains how and why these paintings are important for the Zaan region.
In the 18th Monet Minute again the artist’s view of Joanne on a painting by Claude Monet. The Mill Oosterkattegat II is a good example of an Impressionist work, Monet’s observation using light, color and movement.
Mills and Impressionists. Ursulien is making the connection between Claude Monet, the MonetAtelier, Frans Mars, the Zaansche Molen Association and the Zaans Museum.
From eleven hundred to three hundred to fifteen. In 1871, when Claude Monet was here he was able to capture the mills in own way. Gert takes you to Het Weerpad.
A Zaanse Gondola is located at the landing stage of our air house. Simone talks about the connection with the painting “Houses on the Achterzaan” by Claude Monet.
Ursulien choose a painting of which the original can be seen in the Musée des Ursulines in Mâcon, France. Ursulien takes us to a trip down memory lane with this painting.
What about that wind vane? Jacob tells it!
This time a story with three paintings by Claude Monet, all made at the harbor and the Dam. Marcel tells where exactly and shows what Zaandam looked like in 1871.
Frits talks about one of the oldest locations in Zaandam. What dit Claude Monet see, what is still to see en what has disappeared since the year 1871.
In the typical surroundings of the Zaanstreek, where Jann lives, Jann pleads for a tribute to the hardworking laborers in the windmills.
In 2007 Simone went to Musée d’Orsay in Paris and was pleasantly surprised. She knew Manet, but she had never heard of Monet. It has changed since then.
Joanne is a painter herself and tells how she looks at this painting. Even with wind you understand what, according to Joanne, was the intention of Claude Monet.
Two names for the same painting? And do we see the Zaan or the Seine? Marcel explains.
Gert dares to say that ‘the experts’ are wrong. In Zaandam we know better…..
Liesbeth once participated in a painting workshop in the MonetAtelier. She explains how this was and why she chose Mills at the Noordervaldeursloot.
Why is The Blue House the favorite painting of Claude Monet? And this house was really blue? Frits gives you the answers.
Bert has not been living in Zaandam for very long, but, like Claude Monet, he is fascinated by de Zaan. Bert’s favorite painting is without a doubt Huizen aan de Achterzaan.
Marcel talks about the painting by Guurtje van de Stadt. This is the only portrait that Monet painted in the Zaan region. Strangely enough, it was stored upstairs for almost a century before it ended up in the Kröller-Müller museum.