2060
Rädecker, John (Johannes Anton)
1885 Amsterdam - 1956 ibid.
Two owls.
Black and green patinated bronze. Monogrammed and dated (19)24 on the base.
H 12,5, W 7,5, D 9 cm.
John Rädecker is one of the most important expressionist sculptors of the Netherlands. With the execution of the national monument on the Dam in Amsterdam he created a a monument to the victims of the Second World War and at the same time his masterpiece.
«Around 1900, the Netherlands had not been a sculptor's country for about five hundred years. [...] In the last thirty years, our greatest sculptor in this field has undoubtedly been John Raedecker, who died only recently, in 1956.» from: H.P.L. Wiessing, John Raedecker, Amsterdam n.d., p. 5.

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