Amsterdam nationaal monument op de dam februari 2003

John Rädecker (5 December 1885,

Amsterdam Amsterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Amstel'') is the capital and most populous city of the Netherlands, with The Hague being the seat of government. It has a population of 907,976 within the city proper, 1,558,755 in the urban ar ...

– 12 January 1956, Amsterdam) was a painter and sculptor from the northern Netherlands, best known for his Monument on the Dam.

Biography

According to the

RKD The Netherlands Institute for Art History or RKD (Dutch: RKD-Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis), previously Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD), is located in The Hague and is home to the largest art history center i ...

he was a pupil of

Bart van Hove Bart van Hove (18 March 1850 – 10 February 1914) was a 19th-century Dutch sculptor. Biography Van Hove was born in The Hague. According to the RKD he was the grandson of the painter Bartholomeus Johannes van Hove for whom he is named, an ...

and a member of various painting societies such as the '' Hollandse Aquarellisten Kring'' and the Haarlem-based De Groep, as well as being a sculptor.John Rädecker
in the

The

Teylers Museum Teylers Museum () is an art, natural history, and science museum in Haarlem, Netherlands. Established in 1778, Teylers Museum was founded as a centre for contemporary art and science. The historic centre of the museum is the neoclassical Oval R ...

has a portrait of his daughter by his hand on show in their "

Modern Modern may refer to: History * Modern history ** Early Modern period ** Late Modern period *** 18th century *** 19th century *** 20th century ** Contemporary history * Moderns, a faction of Freemasonry that existed in the 18th century Phil ...

", or "Second" art gallery. He designed the National Monument and asked Adriaan Roland Holst to write the poem at the base. When he died, the monument was finished by his sons Han and Jan Willem.

Public collections

Among the public collections holding works by John Rädecker are: *

Museum de Fundatie Museum de Fundatie () is a museum for the visual arts in Zwolle, Netherlands. Museum de Fundatie forms part of the Hannema-de Stuers Foundation, to which Kasteel het Nijenhuis in Heino also belongs. Museum de Fundatie possesses a collection of vis ...

Zwolle Zwolle () is a city and municipality in the Northeastern Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of Overijssel and the province's second-largest municipality after Enschede with a population of 130,592 as of 1 December 2021. Zwolle is on ...

The Netherlands ) , anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau") , image_map = , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Kingdom of the Netherlands , established_title = Before independence , established_date = Spanish Netherl ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Radecker, John 1885 births 1956 deaths Dutch male sculptors Painters from Amsterdam 20th-century Dutch painters Dutch male painters 20th-century Dutch sculptors 20th-century Dutch male artists