Morsink Icon Gallery

Morsink Icon Gallery
one of the leading international galleries specializing in Russian and Greek icons dating from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century.
Established 1977
Location Keizersgracht 454, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Type Art gallery, Russian and Greek Icons, UNESCO World Heritage Site
Director Simon Morsink and Hugo Morsink
Website www.morsink.com

Morsink Icon Gallery (previously called Jan Morsink Ikonen) is an international gallery specializing in Russian and Greek icons dating from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century.[1] The collection presents the masterpieces of iconographic schools of Moscow, Novgorod, Pskov, Palech and the isle of Crete[2]

History

Morsink Icon Gallery was established in 1977 as Jan Morsink Ikonen in Hengelo, Netherlands by Jan Morsink, who started the gallery out of interest for the art of the Orthodox world. After his death in 1992, his two sons, the art historian Simon Morsink and Hugo Morsink, who worked at that time as a real estate agent, continued the work of their father. They moved the gallery to Amsterdam and focused on an international clientele. At that time the gallery started participating in art fairs such as TEFAF Maastricht,[3] TEFAF Basel, PAN Amsterdam, and Olympia London. In 2016 the name of the gallery was changed in Morsink Icon Gallery.

The gallery is located in Amsterdam at Keizersgracht 454.

Collaboration

Morsink Icon Gallery has collaborated for exhibitions and purchases with many museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; the Ikonen Museum Recklinghausen, Germany; Museum of Russian Icons (Clinton, Massachusetts), United States; the Bible Museum in Amsterdam, Museum Catharijneconvent in Utrecht, Netherlands and the Rublev Museum, Moscow.

Exhibitions

2017 During Russian Art Week in London, 2014 Jan Morsink Iconen held an exhibition “Russian Icons: Spirit and Beauty” at Trinity House in Mayfair. The gallery presented 40 icons dating 15th to 19th centure. The highlight of the exhibition was a 15-panel traveling iconostasis dating to 19th century, made by an Old Believers.[4]

References

  1. ↑ , Morsink Icon Gallery web-site.
  2. ↑ https://www.artlistings.com/nl/Destinations/Nederland/Amsterdam/Jan-Morsink-Ikonen.
  3. ↑ http://tefaf.artsolution.net/gallery/Morsink-Icon-Gallery
  4. ↑ , Back to the Bloc: London's Russian Art Week in Auctions and Galleries

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