Chabot Museum
White modernist villa showing expressionist paintings and sculpture of polders, farmers and wartime refugees.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Chabot Museum in Rotterdam follows the painter and sculptor Henk Chabot out of the city and into the flat polder country beside the little river Rotte in the nineteen thirties. It is a story of weather, seas, winters, farmers, cows and horses, and of what one artist meant by looking at a landscape through different eyes. The war years turn up too, with the refugees and people in hiding who walked into his pictures. Best heard standing in front of the white villa, with the big museum next door in view.
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