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Geldolph Adriaan Kessler
Geldolph Adriaan "Dolf" Kessler (2 April 1884 – 21 August 1945) was a Dutch association football, footballer and industrialist. Kessler – along with brother Boelie Kessler, Boeli and cousins Tonny Kessler, Tonny and Dé Kessler, Dé – played club football for amateur side HVV Den Haag. Kessler also won three caps for the Netherlands national football team, Dutch national side between 1905 and 1906. Family background Kessler was born in a very wealthy family from The Hague, the oldest son of six children. His father Jean Baptiste August Kessler (1853–1900) was the first director of the Koninklijke Maatschappij tot exploitatie van Petroleumbronnen in Nederlandsch-Indië (K.N.M.E.P.) (''Royal Dutch Society for the exploitation of Petroleumsources in the Dutch East-Indies''), which would eventually turn into the Koninklijke Nederlandse Petroleum Maatschappij (''Royal Dutch Petroleum Company''), now named Royal Dutch Shell. Football career Dolf made his debut as a football p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Batavia, Dutch East Indies
Batavia was the capital of the Dutch East Indies. The area corresponds to present-day Jakarta, Indonesia. Batavia can refer to the city proper or its suburbs and hinterland, the , which included the much larger area of the Residency of Batavia in the present-day Indonesian provinces of Jakarta, Banten and West Java. The founding of Batavia by the Dutch in 1619, on the site of the ruins of History of Jakarta, Jayakarta, led to the establishment of a Dutch colony; Batavia became the center of the Dutch East India Company's trading network in Asia. Monopolies on local produce were augmented by non-indigenous cash crops. To safeguard their commercial interests, the company and the colonial administration absorbed surrounding territory. Batavia is on the north coast of Java, in a sheltered bay, on a land of marshland and hills crisscrossed with canals. The city had two centers: Kota Tua Jakarta, Oud Batavia (the oldest part of the city) and Sawah Besar, Weltevreden (the relatively n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koninklijke Hoogovens
Koninklijke Hoogovens known as Koninklijke Nederlandse Hoogovens en Staalfabrieken (KNHS) until 1996 or informally Hoogovens. is a Dutch steel producer founded in 1918. Since 2010, the plant is named Tata Steel IJmuiden. The steelworks based in IJmuiden, the Netherlands. It was built between 1920 and 1940, first producing iron, later steel, with hot and cold rolling producing flat products. In the 1960s the company diversified into aluminium production. The company merged its IJmuiden steel plant with German steel company Hoesch from 1972 forming the joint venture Estel and separated in 1982. In 1999, the company merged with the larger British Steel plc to create the Corus Group steel company. The aluminium production assets were sold off during the Corus period. In 2007, Corus Group was purchased by India-based Tata Steel and was renamed Tata Steel Europe in 2010. In 2021, the company was split into a British (Tata Steel UK) and a Dutch (Tata Steel Netherlands) branch: t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rijksmuseum
The Rijksmuseum () is the national museum of the Netherlands dedicated to Dutch arts and history and is located in Amsterdam. The museum is located at the Museum Square in the borough of Amsterdam South, close to the Van Gogh Museum, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, and the Concertgebouw. The Rijksmuseum was founded in The Hague on 19 November 1798 and moved to Amsterdam in 1808, where it was first located in the Royal Palace and later in the Trippenhuis. The current main building was designed by Pierre Cuypers and first opened in 1885.The renovation Rijksmuseum. Retrieved on 4 April 2013. On 13 April 2013, after a ten-year renovation which cost €375 million, the main building was reopened by [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glenn Kessler (journalist)
Glenn Kessler (born July 6, 1959) is an American editor and writer who has written "The Fact Checker" feature for ''The Washington Post'' since 2011. Career Kessler is a 1981 graduate of Brown University and received a Masters of International Affairs in 1983 from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. Kessler is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Kessler joined ''The Washington Post'' in 1998 as the national business editor and later served as economic policy reporter for two years and diplomatic correspondent for nine years. Kessler also was a reporter with ''Newsday'' for eleven years, covering the White House, politics, the United States Congress, airline safety and Wall Street. His examination of the government's failure to recognize that DC-9-10 jets were susceptible to stalling in icy conditions won the Premier Award from the Aviation/Space Writers Association. At ''Newsday'', Kessler shared in two Pulitzer Prizes given for s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sint-Michielsgestel
Sint-Michielsgestel () is a village in the municipality of Sint-Michielsgestel (municipality), Sint-Michielsgestel, Netherlands. Geography The 120 km long river Dommel flows north from a well near Peer, Belgium, Peer in Belgium. Just north of 's-Hertogenbosch it is joined by the Aa (Meuse), Aa and joins the Meuse as Dieze. It currently divides Sint-Michielsgestel in two parts. In the past the Dommel was important as a transport axis and had crucial influence on the village's history. History Antiquity Archeological finds near the hamlet of Halder prove that the hamlet Halder, Netherlands, Halder was probably the most important settlement on the Dommel during the Roman era. Thousands of Roman coins were found in 1962 not far from Nieuw Herlaer castle. These and other local archeological finds are now on display in the Museum Romeins Halder at Haanwijk. Medieval times The current center of Sint-Michielsgestel is not the same as the medieval center. Right into the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gymnasium Beekvliet
Gymnasium Beekvliet is a Catholic independent school with gymnasium status in Sint-Michielsgestel, The Netherlands. 784 students attended it in the school year of 2019–2020. History Today's "Gymnasium Beekvliet" originated from the episcopal seminary and boarding school Beekvliet. "Kleinseminarie Beekvliet" was founded in Sint-Michielsgestel in 1815. Among others, these persons attended Beekvliet: * Christian Hoecken - missionary in the USA (1808-1851) * Adrian Hoecken - missionary in the USA (1815-1897) * Peter Donders - missionary in Surinam (1809-1887) * Francis Janssens - archbishop of New Orleans (1843-1897) * Floris van der Putt - priest and composer (1915-1990) * Maurice Pirenne - priest and composer (1928-2008) *Tim Janssen - Rector magnificus DTU (1969) Kamp Sint-Michielsgestel During World War II it was used as an internment camp, same as the seminary in Haaren. On May 4, 1942 460 Dutch men were imprisoned at ''Beekvliet''. Among the detainees, discussion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Kohnstamm
Max Kohnstamm (22 May 1914 – 20 October 2010) was a Dutch historian and diplomat. Early life Max Kohnstamm was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands, the son of Philip Kohnstamm, a physicist, philosopher and pedagogue of Jewish-German origin. His father was married to one of the daughters of Jean Baptiste August Kessler, who helped create the company now known as Royal Dutch Shell; one of his uncles was Geldolph Adriaan Kessler, who helped create the Dutch steel industry. During World War II, Kohnstamm and Kessler were both held hostage by the Germans along with other prominent Dutchmen at Beekvliet in Kamp Sint-Michielsgestel; they became quite close there despite the difference in age. He was one of the founding fathers of the European Union by playing a major part in the 1950s in developing the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) and then of the European Economic Community. Education Kohnstamm was educated at Amsterdam University, where he studied Modern History, before ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mauritshuis
The Mauritshuis (, ; ) is an art museum in The Hague, Netherlands. The museum houses the Royal Cabinet of Paintings which consists of 854 objects, mostly Dutch Golden Age paintings. The collection contains works by Johannes Vermeer, Rembrandt van Rijn, Jan Steen, Paulus Potter, Frans Hals, Jacob van Ruisdael, Hans Holbein the Younger, and others. Originally, the 17th-century building was the residence of Count John Maurice of Nassau. The building is now the property of the government of the Netherlands and is listed in the top 100 Dutch heritage sites. History In 1631, John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen, a cousin of Stadtholder Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, Frederick Henry, bought a plot bordering the Binnenhof and the adjacent Hofvijver pond in The Hague, at that time the political centre of the Dutch Republic. Between 1636 and 1641, the Mauritshuis was built on this piece of land, during John Maurice's governorship of Dutch Brazil. It was built in the Dutch Baroque a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hercules Seghers
Hercules Pieterszoon Seghers or Segers ( 1589 – 1638) was a Dutch painter and printmaker of the Dutch Golden Age. Segers is in fact the more common form in contemporary documents, and was used by the painter himself (modern use is about equally divided between the two): Neil MacLaren, ''The Dutch School, 1600–1800, Volume I'', National Gallery Catalogues, p. 418-20, 1991, National Gallery, London, He has been called "the most inspired, experimental and original landscapist" of his period and an even more innovative printmaker. Life Hercules was born in Haarlem, the son of Cathalina Hercules and Pieter Seghers, a Mennonite cloth merchant, originally from Flanders, who moved to Amsterdam in 1596. There Hercules was apprenticed to the leading Flemish landscapist of the day, Gillis van Coninxloo, but his apprenticeship was presumably cut short by Coninxloo's death in 1606. Seghers and his father bought a number of his works at the auction of the studio contents, as Pieter Las ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright Sr. (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator. He designed List of Frank Lloyd Wright works, more than 1,000 structures over a creative period of 70 years. Wright played a key role in the architectural movements of the twentieth century, influencing architects worldwide through his works and mentoring hundreds of apprentices in his Taliesin Fellowship. Wright believed in designing in harmony with humanity and the environment, a philosophy he called ''organic architecture''. This philosophy was exemplified in ''Fallingwater'' (1935), which has been called "the best all-time work of American architecture". Wright was a pioneer of what came to be called the Prairie School movement of architecture and also developed the concept of the Usonian home within Broadacre City, his vision for urban planning in the United States. He also designed original and innovative offices, churches, schools, skyscrapers, hotels, museum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hendrik Wouda
Hendrik Wouda (Leeuwarden 10 May 1885 – Wassenaar 25 October 1946.) was a Dutch architect and furniture designer. He designed furniture, lighting and interiors for homes, offices, ships and exhibitions. His work is characterized by a strongly marked simplicity, a cubic joining together of volumes, well-balanced spatial effects and a practical division of the floor-plan. He also practiced independently as an architect. In his designs, such as that for the Villa De Luifel (1924) in Wassenaar and the Villa Kessler or Slingerduin (1929) in Velsen, Wouda showed himself to be influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright. The interior of the Villa Kessler reflects a monumental, subdued atmosphere in its use of color. RM46626 Den Haag - Alexander Gogelweg 20.jpg, Gogelweg 20, The Hague Exterieur - 's-Gravenhage - 20088056 - RCE.jpg, Gogelweg 20, The Hague Villa - Villa (4440355401).jpg, Villa De Luifel, Wassenaar Interieur eetkamer - Dining Room Interior (5260603474).jpg, Villa De Luifel, Wass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dolph Kessler Met Vrienden Op Het Gras Voor Een Huis In Gainsborough, RP-F-2007-6-121
Dolph may refer to: People Given name or nickname * Dolph Briscoe (1923–2010), Governor of Texas from 1973 to 1979 * Dolph Camilli (1907–1997), American Major League Baseball player * Dolph Eckstein (1902–1963), American football player * Dolph Heinrichs (1883–1967), Australian rules footballer * Dolph Lundgren (born 1957), Swedish actor * Dolph Pulliam (born 1946), American former basketball player and television sportscaster * Dolph Schayes (1928–2015), National Basketball Association Hall of Fame player and coach * Dolph Sweet (1920–1985), American actor * Dolph van der Scheer (1909–1966), Dutch speed skater who competed in the 1936 Winter Olympics Surname * Charles L. Dolph (1918–1994), American professor of mathematics * Cyrus A. Dolph (1840–1914), American businessman * John Henry Dolph (1835–1903), American painter *Joseph N. Dolph (1835–1897), U.S. Senator from Oregon from 1883 to 1895 Stage or ring name *Young Dolph (1985–2021), American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
