#Hendrik Petrus Berlage

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Mercatorplein Housing Block (1925-27) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, by Hendrik Petrus Berlage

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Hendrik Petrus Berlage | Kiosko | La Haya, Paises Bajos | 1925

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4 juin 2017 - Den Haag (La Haye), Gemeentemuseum.

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Kiosko.

Hendrik Petrus Berlage , 1928.

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Esbozos del viaje de la arquitectura a la naturaleza en la obra de Manuel Gallego Jorreto. La vegetación entreverada | Luis Gil

No es fácil, cada día menos, ver el uso de la naturaleza y la vegetación como motor de la arquitectura. El objeto de estas palabras es, sin embargo, observar cómo la obra de Manuel Gallego ha mantenido siempre un diálogo abierto entre el valor de la propia arquitectura y la de la naturaleza, bien la preexistente o bien aquella que es generada ex novo. Un diálogo que no es más que saber acompasar el tiempo propio del hecho arquitectónico, con el territorio pasado y futuro de su cultura, mediante el reloj de la vegetación, algo tan difícil.

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Luis Gil Pita, arquitecto Santiago de Compostela, Noviembre 2019

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Nieuwe, Not Nouveau

Refined, rational, and demonstrably Dutch, this was the aim when Hendrik Petrus Berlage designed this chair for the Amsterdam-based firm, ‘t Binnenhuis (The Interior). This important architect and designer opened the firm in 1900 in collaboration with the insurance company director, Carel Henny, jeweler, Willem Hoeker, and interior designer, Jacob van den Bosch.[1] Motivated by his socialist politics, Berlage founded ‘t Binnenhuis to offer—at least in theory—pared down designs that synthesized quality craftsmanship with machine production in order to provide products accessible to a middle-class clientele.[2]

‘t Binnenhuis wanted to compete directly with another gallery, Arts and Crafts, which had been established two years earlier in The Hague. Although named after the British-reform movement, Arts and Crafts was modeled on Siegfried Bing’s gallery, Maison de l’Art Nouveau. The Hague-based firm sold expensive, and notably imported, examples of principally Belgian and French art nouveau, such as furniture by Henry van der Velde.

With Arts and Crafts as a foil, Berlage wanted to define the boundaries of his own, specifically Dutch, Nieuwe Kunst aesthetic through ‘t Binnenhuis. His chair illustrates this goal. The piece is decorated with simple rosewood and ebony inlaid patterns on the front legs. The chair’s geometric elements emphasize its sober appearance—intended to emulate Dutch Renaissance examples.[3] Berlage’s focus on straight lines, especially in the sharp diagonal line created by the angled backrest, was intended to create a stark distinction between his work and the curving, bent wood lines characteristic of art nouveau.

Devon Zimmerman is a Fellow in the Product Design and Decorative Arts Department at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum and a PhD candidate at the University of Maryland, College Park.

[1] Jan de Bruijn, Art Nouveau in Nederland (The Hague: Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, 2018), p. 67–68.

[2] Ibid., p. 73.

[3] Titus M. Eliëns, H. P. Berlage: ontwerpen voor het interieur (Zwolle: Wanders, 1998), p. 30–34.

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Kunstmuseum (1931-35) in Den Haag, the Netherlands, by Hendrik Petrus Berlage

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Het gedroomde museum. Kunstmuseum Den Haag

Lang voordat museumarchitectuur populair was als toeristische trekpleister, droomden architect Hendrik Petrus Berlage en museumdirecteur Hendrik Enno van Gelder van een spraakmakend ... from B&W Algemeen nieuws

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Hendrik Petrus Berlage | Kiosko | 1928

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n 1919 Hendrik Petrus Berlage was commissioned by the city of Den Haag to design an art museum that would become his most modern and still widely admired building. Together with the director of the municipal museum H.E. van Gelder Berlage started developing a museum on a very green plot of land not far away from the sea. Berlage’s clear objective was to secure optimal natural lighting that capitalized on the exceptional light conditions near the sea and the fact that Van Gelder regarded it as crucial for the perception of 20th century art. But with his first proposal the architect got a little carried away: Berlage embedded the museum in a massive complex also including a congress center and a concert hall, a proposal that for obvious reasons was more of a dream and less reality. Consequently the city’s officials had the architect rework and reduce his design. With his final proposal delivered as late as 1928 Berlage came up with a museum only design that would cost only a third of the initial entry. After another three years ground was finally broken and in 1935 the Gemeentemuseum was opened.

In 2021 the Kunstmuseum in Den Haag dedicated an entire exhibition to the genesis of the museum and its collection that was accompanied by the present book: „Ein Traum von einem Museum. Kunstmuseum Den Haag“, written by Jan de Bruijn, Doede Hardeman & Jet van Overeem and published by NAi010 Publishers. Besides the above-mentioned history of the building the book lays its focus on presenting the impressive museum spaces and the art it has been designed for. Over almost nine decades the museum’s collection has grown continuously, influenced by the changing societal climates, different directors and also Berlage’s building: Sol LeWitt e.g. considered it one of the most beautiful in the world and with his „Wall Drawing no. 373“ in 1982/83 inscribed himself into the museum’s architecture.

„Ein Traum von einem Museum“ is a beautifully illustrated tribute to an outstanding museum that focuses on its architecture, its institutional development and the brilliant collection it houses, an approach that makes read worthwhile for anyone interested in this legendary institution!

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Yellow Pressed Glass Tea Service for Leerdam, Hendrik Petrus Berlage, 1919, Art Institute of Chicago: Architecture and Design

Dutch glass manufacturer Leerdam was known in the early 20th century for its promotion of technology, fair working conditions, and good design for the masses. The company often commissioned noted architects to produce lines of glassware, including this striking tea service designed by Piet Zwart and architect H. P. Berlage. Based on the geometries of the hexagon and circle, this set of bright yellow pressed-glass dishware was dimensioned so that lids and saucers could be used interchangeably. Berlage was one of the first modern architects in the Netherlands, and he was also active in the allied fields of furniture, wallpaper, and tableware design. Although the set was distinctive in color and geometric form, it followed Berlage’s ideal that objects be rich in visual information, but produced without applied ornament. Zwart went on to become a pioneer of advanced typographic design, affiliated with the Dutch group De Stijl and other groups in the international avant-garde. Robert Allerton Purchase Fund Size: Variable dimensions Medium: Glass

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