HALF A MILLION EUROS FROM BANKGIRO LOTTERY FOR COBRA MUSEUM
During the annual Goed Geld Gala held on 2 February this year, John Vrieze, director of the Cobra Museum of Modern Art, was presented with a cheque for 568,000 euros from the BankGiro Lottery. The Museum applied for funding in order to purchase key CoBrA art works for its collection.
John Vrieze: “This donation offers the Cobra Museum the opportunity to put together a major collection of CoBrA art and to promote the appeal and importance of this typically Dutch cultural legacy to a wider public.”
The Cobra Museum is proud and happy to be among the beneficiaries of the BankGiro Lottery. As such the Museum is among a select group of cultural institutes generously supported by the BankGiro Lottery in realising their key objectives.
The BankGiro Lottery achieved a revenue of 105 million euros in 2005. Half of this revenue, or 52. 5 million euros, went to 21 recipients in the culture and welfare sectors on 2 February (www.bankgiroloterij.nl).
In 2005, with the support of the BankGiro Lottery, the Cobra Museum acquired, among other works, a bronze sculpture by Shinkichi Tajiri from 1960, the engaging lithograph Some of These Days, made jointly by CoBrA artists in 1949, a series of fine designs and CoBrA publications as well as seven early drawings by Armando.
Among other remarkable acquisitions made possible with the support of the BankGiro Lottery in 2005 are:
- the Rijksmuseum’s purchase of two 17th century Delftware tulip vases, Portret of an African Man by Jan Mostaert, Windmill on the Gein by Moonlight by Piet Mondrian and the Diepraam-Kempadoo collection;
- the Mauritshuis’ purchase of two paintings: Old Woman with Boy and Candles by Peter Paul Rubens and View of Bentheim Castle by Jacob van Ruisdael;
- the Kröller-Müller Museum and Van Gogh Museum’s joint purchase of The Daughter of Jacob Meyer by Vincent van Gogh.
- The Kilsdonkse Windmill, a project from De Hollandsche Molen, also received 64, 000 euros from the BankGiro Lottery towards its restoration costs.
John Vrieze, director of the Cobra Museum, receives a welcome cheque from Ellen Damsma, managing director of the BankGiro Lottery.
Photograph: Roy Beusker.
