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Louis Schrikkel AUCTION RECORDS
1902 - 1995. Known for: Painting.
Louis Schrikkel (Amsterdam 1902-The Hague 1995) moved in the early 1930s to Tuindorp Watergraafsmeer, a newly built residential area dating from 1923 in Amsterdam East, better known as “Betondorp”... Read full biography
Louis Schrikkel (Amsterdam 1902-The Hague 1995) moved in the early 1930s to Tuindorp Watergraafsmeer, a newly built residential area dating from 1923 in Amsterdam East, better known as “Betondorp” (Concrete Village). Other well-known residents of Betondorp included the writer Gerard Reve,... Read full biography
Louis Schrikkel (Amsterdam 1902-The Hague 1995) moved in the early 1930s to Tuindorp Watergraafsmeer, a newly built residential area dating from 1923 in Amsterdam East, better known as “Betondorp” (Concrete Village). Other well-known residents of Betondorp included the writer Gerard Reve, photographer Ed van der Elsken, and footballer Johan Cruijff. In 1933, Schrikkel painted a number of houses in Betondorp seen from the garden side (in the collection of Museum MORE). The subdued colour palette... Read full biography
Louis Schrikkel (Amsterdam 1902-The Hague 1995) moved in the early 1930s to Tuindorp Watergraafsmeer, a newly built residential area dating from 1923 in Amsterdam East, better known as “Betondorp” (Concrete Village). Other well-known residents of Betondorp included the writer Gerard Reve, photographer Ed van der Elsken, and footballer Johan Cruijff. In 1933, Schrikkel painted a number of houses in Betondorp seen from the garden side (in the collection of Museum MORE). The subdued colour palette of this painting corresponds with the gloomy, melancholic image that many people associated with Betondorp. This sense of melancholy is also reflected in a childhood memory described in Reve’s epistolary novel ‘On the Way to the End (Op Weg Naar het... Read full biography
Louis Schrikkel (Amsterdam 1902-The Hague 1995) moved in the early 1930s to Tuindorp Watergraafsmeer, a newly built residential area dating from 1923 in Amsterdam East, better known as “Betondorp” (Concrete Village). Other well-known residents of Betondorp included the writer Gerard Reve, photographer Ed van der Elsken, and footballer Johan Cruijff. In 1933, Schrikkel painted a number of houses in Betondorp seen from the garden side (in the collection of Museum MORE). The subdued colour palette of this painting corresponds with the gloomy, melancholic image that many people associated with Betondorp. This sense of melancholy is also reflected in a childhood memory described in Reve’s epistolary novel ‘On the Way to the End (Op Weg Naar het Einde’, (1963). The writer recalled overhearing a neighbour in Ploegstraat say to another woman: “Lots of vegetables and few potatoes, such a... Read full biography
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