Evert Breman (28 April 1859,

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- 24 October 1926,

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) was a Dutch architect in the

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style.

Biography

He was one of six children born to Willem Fredrik Breman (1829-1875), owner of a carpentry and

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ing shop, and his wife, Everarda Elsebé née Meuleman. In 1881, he and his younger brother,

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(known as "Co"), left Zwolle. Co would pursue his artistic career in Brussels, while Evert went to Amsterdam. There, he apparently worked as a butcher, while studying architecture in the evenings. His experience in his father's shop had already given him some basic knowledge of construction.Biography
by Vincent van Rossem @ Amsterdamse Binnenstad He designed his first buildings in 1886; two homes on the . His first major project, in 1888, was an office building for , an insurance company. In 1887, he married Martha Maria Neumeijer (1857-1938), the daughter of Leendert Johannes Neumeijer Sr. (d.1906), a real estate agent and amateur architect. They had two sons; the

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, , and , a diplomat. One of his grandchildren would describe him as a "tyrannical father"., ''De tuinman van Aden : losse ontmoetingen'' (The Gardener of Aden: casual encounters), ONE Business B.V., 2012 By 1895, he had fully established his reputation, and was hired as the principal architect of the , held at the

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. Most of the site was devoted to the miniature village of "Old Holland", with 16th and 17th-century façades. For his work on the exhibition, he was named a Knight in the

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. His largest projects were commissioned by , a shipping company, from 1917 to 1922. These included their corporate headquarters, and the Lloyd Hotel. After 1923, he was employed in the real estate industry, as a supervisory Director for the North Holland Mortgage Bank. He died at the age of sixty-seven, and is interred at the . Although not an innovator, his buildings are highly regarded.

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Brief biography and works
@ Amsterdam op de Kaart {{DEFAULTSORT:Breman, Evert 1859 births 1926 deaths Dutch architects Recipients of the Order of Orange-Nassau People from Zwolle