In the forest: At the waterfall 2020, photography

In the forest: At the waterfall 2020, photography

Themed tour, Hungry for Culture

A series of lunchtime tours



Hungry for culture? Check out our short lunchtime tours, designed to fit around your busy schedule! The tours provide a brief but focused encounter with artworks and objects from our collection, with plenty of time left over to grab a bite to eat.

Take 20 minutes out of your lunch break and sample the cultural fare on offer! Be sure to drop by the Gëlle Klack afterwards and get 10% off your lunch.



In the forest: At the waterfall Erwin Olaf Springveld (1959 –2023), known as Erwin Olaf, was a Dutch photographer whose work was described by Time Magazine as straddling "the worlds of commercial, art and fashion photography at once". Considered as one of the foremost artists of contemporary photography, his plural oeuvre focused on marginalised groups in society, including women, people of colour and the LGBTQ+ community. His bold and sometimes controversial approach earned him a series of prestigious collaborations, from Vogue to Louis Vuitton and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. In 2017, Olaf was the official portraitist of the Dutch royal family and in 2013 created the national face of the euro coins for King Willem-Alexander. His work is collected by museums worldwide, including the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam which holds over 500 of his photographs, and widely exhibited, drawing crowds like 328.000 visitors at the Gemeentemuseum and Museum of Photography in The Hague in 2019. His last museum exhibition worldwide took place in Luxembourg, at the MNAHA, with Erwin Olaf & Hans Op de Beeck, inspired by Steichen (2022/23), in which a large selection from the first series he produced entirely outside his studio, Im Wald (2020), was shown. It included the impressive Am Wasserfall (2020), recently acquired. That photograph was inspired by the painting Swimming (1885) by Thomas Eakins and addresses the indifferent power of nature, human arrogance towards nature, using it up for our entertainment and living resources. Erwin Olaf suffered from a long-term emphysema, first diagnosed in 1996, and died on 20 September 2023 because of his illness weeks after receiving a lung transplant.

All dates :
- 06/08/2024, 12:30, FR
- 13/08/2024, 12:30, DE
- 20/08/2024, 12:30, EN
- 27/08/2024, 12:30, LU

Price :
Free

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