Piet Kramer
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Amsterdam School
The Amsterdam School is a style of architecture that arose from 1910 through about 1930 in The Netherlands...
(Expressionist architecture
Expressionist architecture
Expressionist architecture was an architectural movement that developed in Europe during the first decades of the 20th century in parallel with the expressionist visual and performing arts....
).
Kramer collaborated with his friend Michel de Klerk
Michel de Klerk
Michel de Klerk was a Dutch architect.He was one of the founding architects of the movement Amsterdam School. Early in his career he worked for other architects, including Eduard Cuypers. Of his many outstanding designs, very few have actually been built...
in the architectural practice of Eduard Cuypers
Eduard Cuypers
Eduard Cuypers was a Dutch architect.Cuypers was trained in the architectural practice of his uncle P.J.H. Cuypers and in 1881 set up his own office in Amsterdam. His good contacts with businessmen earned him commissions for offices, shops and houses...
. In 1911 he collaborated in the design of the Scheepvaarthuis (Shipping House), with Johan van der Mey
Johan van der Mey
Johan Melchior van der Mey was a Dutch architect best known for the landmark Scheepvaarthuis building in Amsterdam located at Prins Hendrikkade, 1012....
and Michel de Klerk. Kramer also collaborated with de Klerk on the P.L. Takstraat/Burgemeester Tellegenstraat complex. Its corner portion is very striking — like the turrets De Klerk incorporated in his Hemburgstraat building, it is purely decorative and not functional.
Amsterdamse Bos
The Amsterdamse Bos is an English park or landscape park in the municipalities Amstelveen and Amsterdam. And although most of the park is located in Amstelveen, the owner of the park is the City of Amsterdam...
park. For these bridges he also frequently designed the associated bridge houses, the ironwork and even the landscape plans. The sculptural work was generally done by Hildo Krop
Hildo Krop
Hildebrand Lucien Krop was a prolific Dutch sculptor and furniture designer, widely known as the city sculptor of Amsterdam, where his work is well-represented.-Life:...
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Outside Amsterdam Kramer designed, amongst other works, The Bijenkorf department store
Department store
A department store is a retail establishment which satisfies a wide range of the consumer's personal and residential durable goods product needs; and at the same time offering the consumer a choice of multiple merchandise lines, at variable price points, in all product categories...
in The Hague
The Hague
The Hague is the capital city of the province of South Holland in the Netherlands. With a population of 500,000 inhabitants , it is the third largest city of the Netherlands, after Amsterdam and Rotterdam...
and three villas in Park Meerwijk in Bergen
Bergen, North Holland
Bergen is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. Its North Sea beaches make it a popular destination for tourists, especially Germans. In 2001, the municipality was expanded to include the former municipalities of Egmond and Schoorl.Since about 1900, Bergen...
.
Works (Selected)
- 1911—1916 - Scheepvaarthuis (Navigation House)
- 1917—1928 - Bridges for the Department of public works, Amsterdam
- 1924—1926 - De Bijenkorf Store, The Hague
See also
- Scheepvaarthuis (Navigation House) (Wikipedia in Dutch)
- De Bijenkorf Store, The Hague (Wikipedia in Dutch)
Sources
the text on this page or an earlier version of it has been taken from the DutchDutch language
Dutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second...
wiki article at and the Internet site of the BMA, http://www.bmz.amsterdam.nl