在一百年前的1917年,第一次世界大战正酣,美国、希腊和中国相继在这一年加入战局,对抗着德国、奥匈帝国等同盟国。在这一年之前,刚刚结束不久的凡尔登战役和索姆河战役,使战争各方损失百万将士。消耗战使欧洲的中心地带只剩一片可怜焦土。紧邻战争风暴中心,荷兰作为中立国并未卷入战端,躲过了袭扰。欧洲各国的艺术家来到荷兰避战,荷兰阿姆斯特丹一时间大有取代法国巴黎、英国伦敦,成为战时“艺术陪都”的势头。 One hundred years ago, in 1917, the First World War was in full swing. The United States, Greece, and China joined the battlefield this year one after another, against Germany, the Austro-Hungarian Empire and other allied countries. Prior to that year, the battle of Verdun and the Somme just concluded shortly, so that all parties to war lost millions of soldiers. Consumption war has left only a pathetic scorched earth in the heart of Europe. Close to the center of the storm of war, the Netherlands as a neutral nation has not been involved in the war ended, escaped the harassment. Artists in European countries came to the Netherlands to avoid the war. For a time, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, took the place of Paris, France and London, England and became the wartime “art capital”.