Karel Petrus Cornelis de Bazel (
Den Helder
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, 14 February 1869—
Amsterdam
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, 28 November 1923) was a modern
Dutch
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architect, engraver, draftsman, furniture designer, carpet designer, glass artist and bookbinding designer. He was the teacher of
Adriaan Frederik van der Weij and the first chairman of the
Bond van Nederlandse Architecten (BNA; the Association of Dutch Architects), beginning in 1909.
Life and career
Youth, Training, and Early Career, 1869–1900
Karel de Bazel was the son of Karel Pieter Cornelis de Bazel, caretaker of the Ministry of Marine, and Petronella Elisabeth Koch.
De Bazel came from a modest background and his formal education as a youth only extended through primary school.
Much later, De Bazel began his career as an apprentice to a carpenter.
De Bazel took evening courses in architecture at the
Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten
The Royal Academy of Art (, KABK) is an art and design academy in The Hague, offering programs at both the HBO bachelor's and master's levels, as well as PhD programs.
Succeeding the ''Haagsche Teeken-Academie'' (part of the Confrerie Pictura), ...
(Royal Academy of Visual Arts) in
The Hague
The Hague ( ) is the capital city of the South Holland province of the Netherlands. With a population of over half a million, it is the third-largest city in the Netherlands. Situated on the west coast facing the North Sea, The Hague is the c ...
,
and then took a job as a draftsman at the Nieukerken architectural firm in The Hague in 1888.
In 1889, through his brother, who worked as a
French
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translator at a publishing house in
Leiden
Leiden ( ; ; in English language, English and Archaism, archaic Dutch language, Dutch also Leyden) is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Provinces of the Nethe ...
, De Bazel found work as a draftsman for prominent Dutch architect
P.J.H. Cuypers in Amsterdam. During this period he executed perspective drawings of St. Vitus' Church in
Hilversum
Hilversum () is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of North Holland, Netherlands. Located in the heart of the Gooi, it is ...
and
St. Bavo's Cathedral in
Haarlem
Haarlem (; predecessor of ''Harlem'' in English language, English) is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Netherlands. It is the capital of the Provinces of the Nether ...
,
which so impressed Cuypers that he first promoted De Bazel to head draftsman and later his chief designer, overseeing the rest of the firm. But after De Bazel became a member of the
Theosofische Vereniging (
Theosophical Society
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) in 1894, he left Cuypers' firm, as his employer was
Catholic
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. In 1895, De Bazel and
Johannes Ludovicus Mathieu Lauweriks formed their own independent partnership.
Between 1897 and 1902 the duo taught courses alongside
H. J. M. Walenkamp
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* H. (noble) (died after 127 ...
in the new
Theosophical
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Vahânaloge they had founded in Amsterdam the previous year in drawing,
art history
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Tradit ...
and aesthetics; the institution operated until 1931. Here they made connections between architecture,
mathematics
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,
nature
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, and the
cosmos
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.
Bazel was a member of
Nederlandsche Vereeniging voor Ambachts- en Nijverheidskunst
The Nederlandsche Vereeniging voor Ambachts- en Nijverheidskunst (V.A.N.K.) (Dutch Association for Craft and Industrial Art) was founded in 1904. It was founded by Jacob Pieter van den Bosch, Herman Hana, Klaas van Leeuwen, Theo Molkenboer, and W ...
(V.A.N.K.) the Dutch Association for Craft and Craft Art.
Mature architectural work, 1900–23
In 1904 De Bazel founded the famous Amsterdam
furniture
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studio De Ploeg with his brother-in-law
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and Klaas van Leeuwen. Along with
Hendrik Petrus Berlage
Hendrik Petrus Berlage (; 21 February 185612 August 1934) was a Dutch architect and designer. He is considered one of the fathers of the architecture of the Amsterdam School.
Life and work
Hendrik Petrus Berlage, son of Nicolaas Willem Ber ...
, he pioneered the Dutch architectural
rationalism
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that would become characteristic of national practice during and after the
First World War
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.
His designs also began to be influenced by Eastern architecture.
During this period, De Bazel executed numerous designs around and for the municipality of
Bussum
Bussum () is a commuter town and former municipality in the Gooi region in the south east of the province of North Holland in the Netherlands near Hilversum. Since 2016, Bussum has been part of the new municipality of Gooise Meren.
Bussum had a ...
. The first of these was De Bazel's model farm
Oud Bussem
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(1903), located on the eponymous estate in the
Gooi
The Gooi ( ) is an area around Hilversum, in the centre of the Netherlands. It is a slightly hilly area characterised by its green landscape, its historical charm, the wealth of its inhabitants and its villas. The Gooi is known in the country a ...
. This complex was founded by a wealthy student in response to an outbreak of
typhus
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that had contaminated fresh milk that had been sold nationwide. Both Berlage and
Willem Marinus Dudok
Willem Marinus Dudok (6 July 1884 – 6 April 1974) was a famous Dutch modernist architect. He was born in Amsterdam. He became City Architect for the town of Hilversum in 1928 where he was best known for the brick Hilversum Town Hall, comp ...
praised this design, calling it De Bazel's best work. In 1921, he was commissioned by the municipality of Bussum design a new residential area, the
Brediuskwartier, which remains one of the most beautiful and completely remaining examples of a residential neighborhood in the style of the
Amsterdam School
The Amsterdam School (Dutch: ''Amsterdamse School'') is a style of architecture that arose from 1910 through about 1930 in the Netherlands. The Amsterdam School movement is part of international Expressionist architecture, sometimes linked ...
style in the Netherlands.
On 17 November 2006, the district was officially designated by the government as a protected townscape. He also designed a park and workers' housing in Bussum, and other residential districts for workers and bourgeois clients alike in
Eindhoven
Eindhoven ( ; ) is a city and List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality of the Netherlands, located in the southern Provinces of the Netherlands, province of North Brabant, of which it is the largest municipality, and is also locat ...
and
Dieren
Dieren () is a town in the eastern Netherlands. It is located in Rheden, Gelderland, between Zutphen and Arnhem, on the bank of the IJssel.
Dieren was a separate municipality until 1818, when it became a part of Rheden.
The Gazelle bicycle fa ...
, and between 1913 and 1923 De Bazel also designed several blocks of workers' housing in the
Spaarndammerbuurt
Spaarndammerbuurt is a neighborhood of Amsterdam, Netherlands
, Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest ...
west of the center of Amsterdam.
In 1905 De Bazel also designed an octagonal-plan World Capital complex, including a
Peace Palace
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and three academies, for the
Foundation for Internationalism just outside The Hague, which, however, was never executed, except for the Peace Palace. Similarly, in 1907, he designed a new district in the foothills of
Semarang
Semarang (Javanese script, Javanese: , ''Kutha Semarang'') is the capital and largest city of Central Java province in Indonesia. It was a major port during the Netherlands, Dutch Dutch East Indies, colonial era, and is still an important regio ...
in the
Dutch East Indies
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(now
Indonesia
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) for his friend, the
colonial pharmacist and activist
Hendrik Tillema. This district was supposed to be used to improve the health and living conditions of the native
Javanese in the city, which caused the colonial government to oppose its implementation until it was extensively modified by
Thomas Karsten
Herman Thomas Karsten (22 April 1884, Amsterdam – 1945, Cimahi) was a Dutch people, Dutch engineer who gave major contributions to architecture and town planning in Indonesia during Netherlands East Indies, Dutch colonial rule. Most significa ...
a decade later to serve as a gentrified district for the city's wealth Dutch and Chinese elite instead. Berlage included De Bazel's designs in his 1908 Expansion Plan for The Hague but this was never directly realized, either.
Other works from this period include the building for the Nederlandse Heidemaatschappij (a Dutch environmental and infrastructure consulting and engineering firm, now called
Arcadis
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Arcadis was ...
) in
Arnhem
Arnhem ( ; ; Central Dutch dialects, Ernems: ''Èrnem'') is a Cities of the Netherlands, city and List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality situated in the eastern part of the Netherlands, near the German border. It is the capita ...
, built from 1912 to 1914, which was the first large-scale structure in the Netherlands to make use of
reinforced concrete
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. The structure is now called the
De Bazel after him.
De Bazel also worked on the designs for a glass factory in
Leerdam
Leerdam () is a city and former municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of Utrecht (province), Utrecht.
The municipality was merged with the municipalities of Vianen and Zederik on 1 January 2019. The name of the new municipalit ...
, which beginning in 1915 engaged several artists to design utilitarian and decorative products, among them Berlage and
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 ...
.
Late in life, De Bazel designed his most famous work, the headquarters for the
Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij
The Netherlands Trading Society ( or NHM) was a Dutch trading and financial company, established in 1824, in The Hague by King William I to promote and develop trade, shipping and agriculture. For the next 140 years the NHM developed a large int ...
(NHM; Dutch Trading Company), built from 1919 to 1926 at Vijzelstraat 32 in Amsterdam, where he also designed much of the interior. The former office building is often colloquially referred to as ''
De Bazel'' in his honor, and since 2007 has housed the
Amsterdam City Archives
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. He also, significantly, designed the
synagogue of Enschede, which was completed posthumously.
Other design work
De Bazel was also involved in designing furniture and utensils. Well-known examples of this are the cradle he made for
Princess Juliana of the Netherlands
Juliana (; Juliana Louise Emma Marie Wilhelmina; 30 April 1909 – 20 March 2004) was List of monarchs of the Netherlands, Queen of the Netherlands from 1948 until her abdication in 1980.
Juliana was the only child of Queen Wilhelmina and Duke ...
in 1909 and a
Pulchikast that he designed for the occasion of the marriage of
Queen Wilhelmina
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to
Prince Hendrik
Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (; ; 19 April 1876 – 3 July 1934) was Prince of the Netherlands from 7 February 1901 until his death in 1934 as the husband of Queen Wilhelmina. He remains the longest-serving Dutch consort.
Biography
Henry ...
in 1901.
De Bazel also designed the stamps issued in honor of the centenary of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1913, which depicted the queen and her three predecessors.
Death
Karel de Bazel died aboard a train from his home in Bussum to Amsterdam, ironically en route to the funeral of his fellow accomplished Dutch architect
Michel de Klerk
Michel de Klerk (24 November 1884, Amsterdam – 24 November 1923, Amsterdam) was a Dutch architect. Born to a Jewish family, he was one of the founding architects of the movement Amsterdam School (Expressionist architecture)
Early in his ca ...
(who had died four days earlier), as a result of a lung condition. He was buried at
Westerveld Cemetery in
Driehuis
Driehuis is a village in the Dutch province of North Holland; part of the municipality of Velsen, it lies about 8 km north of Haarlem and 15 km west-northwest of Amsterdam.
History
It was first mentioned in 1680 as Drie Huysen, and m ...
.
Works
Architectural
* Project for Saint Bavo's Cathedral in Haarlem (1890)
* Saint Vitus Church and ministers' residence in Hilversum (1891—92; for PJH Cuypers)
* De Bremstruik ("The Broomstick") villa for KJL Alberdingk Thijm, in
Baarn
Baarn () is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, near Hilversum in the province of Utrecht (province), Utrecht.
The municipality of Baarn
The municipality of Baarn consists of the following towns: Baarn, Eembrugge, Lage Vuursche.
T ...
(1900—01)
* Office building for Joannes van Woensel Kooy at Flevolaan 67,
Huizen
Huizen () is a municipality and a village in the province of North Holland, the Netherlands.
The name "Huizen" is Dutch for "houses" and this usage has been linked to the belief that the first stone houses in the region, instead of the more commo ...
(1903)
* Hofstede dairy farm,
Naarden
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(1904)
* Houses at Koningslaan 14 and 16, Amsterdam (1904)
* Moltzer-Boeke House, Wilhelminalaan 4, Alkmaar (1904—05)
* Ideal project for the "World Capital" at The Hague (1905—06)
* Woudoord villa in Oranjewoud, Heerenveen (1908)
* Restoration of the Rembrandt House, Jodenbreestraat 4, Amsterdam (1908—11)
* Villa at Beethovenlaan 29, Hilversum (1910)
* Heerenpoort railway station in Leiden (1911)
* CJ and J. Pabst House, Steenbergen 6,
Laren Laren may refer to:
Places
* Laarne, municipality located in the Belgian province of East Flanders, earlier referenced as Laren
* Laren, Gelderland, village in the Dutch municipality of Lochem
* Laren, North Holland, municipality and town in the N ...
(1911)
* Villa Meentwijck, Groot Hertoginnelaan 34A, Bussum (1912)
* JC Loman House, Johannes Vermeerstraat 14, Amsterdam (1912)
* Project for
Rotterdam
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City Hall (1912—13)
* Nederlandse Heidemaatschappij in Arnhem (1912—14)
* House at Dam 81, Amsterdam (1913)
* De Boschkamp Farm greenhouse and coachhouse (1913)
* Villa at Oudwijkerlaan 47,
Utrecht
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(1914)
* Steens Zijnen House, Van Lawick van Pabststraat 31, Arnhem (1916)
* Redelé villa at Parklaan 56, Eindhoven (1916)
* Workers' houses in the Spaarndammerbuurt in Amsterdam (1918—23)
* De Wyk villa for G. Mesdag,
Haren (1919)
* Office building for the Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij in Amsterdam (1919—26)
* New residential area, the Brediuskwartier, in Bussum (1921)
*
Sliedrecht
Sliedrecht () is a town and municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. The municipality covers an area of of which is covered by water.
Sliedrecht is known for the many large dredging companies (including Boskal ...
Town Hall (1921—23)
* Synagogue of Enschede (after 1923)
* Workers' housing complex at Rijswijkseweg 340, The Hague (1923—25)
Other design work
* Stamp design for Amsterdam City Archives, ca. 1900
* Cover for ''
Wendingen
''Wendingen'' (Dutch language, Dutch: ''Inversion'' or ''Upheaval'', literally ''turns'') was an architecture and art magazine that appeared from 1918 to 1932. It was a monthly publication aimed at architects and interior designers. The bo ...
'', vol. 2, no. 1 (January 1919)
Gallery
Image:Bazel, Karel Pieter Cornelis, de (1869-1923), Afb 010097005723.jpg, Stamp design for the Amsterdam City Archives, ca. 1900
Image:villa_de_Bazel1.jpg, Menko-van-Dam house in Enschede
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Image:Menko Dam.jpg, Cupboard for the Menko-van Dams
Image:K.P.C. de Bazel competition design city hall Rotterdam.jpg, Competition design for Rotterdam City Hall, 1912–13
Image:K.P.C. de Bazel cover Wendingen 1.jpg, Cover for ''Wendingen'', January 1919
Image:entree_villa_de_Bazel.jpg, Entrance to a villa
A villa is a type of house that was originally an ancient Roman upper class country house that provided an escape from urban life. Since its origins in the Roman villa, the idea and function of a villa have evolved considerably. After the f ...
in Enschede
Enschede (; local ) is a list of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the province of Overijssel and the Twente region of the eastern Netherlands. The east of the urban area reaches ...
Image:synagoge_Enschede.jpg, Synagogue
A synagogue, also called a shul or a temple, is a place of worship for Jews and Samaritans. It is a place for prayer (the main sanctuary and sometimes smaller chapels) where Jews attend religious services or special ceremonies such as wed ...
in Enschede
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Image:lamp_synagoge_de_Bazel.jpg, Lamp in the synagogue of Enschede
Image:Interieur de Bazel.jpg, Dining room for the Schuurman-Gentis family
Image:Glasservies de Bazel.jpg, Examples from glass service from the Leerdam glass factory
Image:Amsterdam - Arbeiderswoning Beuningenplein.jpg, Workers' homes Van Beuningenplein Amsterdam-West
Image:Zaandammerplein 9.jpg, Identical design of workers' housing in Zaandammerplein, Amsterdam-West
Image:Woudoord.jpg, Woudoord villa in Oranjewoud
Oranjewoud (, literally "Orange Forest") is a small village in the Netherlands. It is located in the municipality of Heerenveen, Friesland. Oranjewoud had a population of 1570 in January 2017. It is known for Oranjewoud Palace.
History
Oran ...
, Heerenveen
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(1908)
Image:DeBazelWilhelmina1913.jpg, Wilhelmina stamp (1913)
See also
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List of Dutch architects
Following is a list of Dutch architects in alphabetical order by birth century.
Born in the 15th century
* Jan Heyns (14??–1516)
* Jacob van Aaken (?-1532)
Born in the 16th century
* Bartholomeus van Bassen (c.1590–1652)
* Salomon d ...
*
Modern architecture
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*
Expressionist architecture
Expressionist architecture was an architectural movement in Europe during the first decades of the 20th century in parallel with the expressionism, expressionist visual and performing arts that especially developed and dominated in Germany. Bri ...
*
Amsterdam School
The Amsterdam School (Dutch: ''Amsterdamse School'') is a style of architecture that arose from 1910 through about 1930 in the Netherlands. The Amsterdam School movement is part of international Expressionist architecture, sometimes linked ...
*
Architecture of the Netherlands
Dutch architecture has played an important role in the international discourse on architecture in three eras. The first of these was during the 17th century, when the Dutch empire was at the height of its power. The second was in the first hal ...
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