ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the varying aspects of reception in the Netherlands. It examines its influence on Dutch artists from the early 1910s, discusses the exhibitions held, considers how private and public collections of expressionist art were assembled, and concludes with the sudden canonization of expressionism shortly after the end of the Second World War. More expressionist paintings were displayed in the Netherlands when a retrospective of the work of Wassily Kandinsky was held at the Oldenzeel Gallery in Rotterdam at the end of 1912. The influence of German expressionism on Dutch painting is clear, with Kandinsky in particular having played a significant role in this regard. Expressionist elements in later Dutch paintings from the 1920s and 1930s generally have less in common with the expressionism in its original form.
