The ceramic wall relief The family is one of the reconstruction works of art that the Rotterdam artist Louis van Roode made in his own city. From his hand is also the mosaic The journey of Erasmus on the Holbein House on the Coolsingel and the glass mosaic on the side facade of the renovated Station Post Office (Central Post) next to Central Station. The facade relief The family It shows a man and a woman with a child holding the hand between them. Below is an illustration of a dove (symbol of peace) and a bank building. The office can generally be seen as a reference to the city, but it is also a representation of the office of the Eerste Hollandse Levensverzekering Bank, which was located here at that time (1959) and was the client for Van Roode to create this artwork. The family is made of glazed chamotte clay and mosaic.
During the Reconstruction period, the Rotterdam artist Louis van Roode (Delft, 1914 - Rotterdam, 1964) often worked on commission for the new architecture. He made many murals and mosaics, which adorned modern architecture, but which also told their own story about nature, culture, man and the cosmos. Major works by his hand have been preserved in Rotterdam, but also in Vlissingen, Eindhoven and The Hague. He can rightly be called one of the greatest wall artists of his time.
Assignment during the construction of the First Dutch Life Insurance Bank
Owner
Property owner
About the artwork
The ceramic wall relief The family is one of the reconstruction works of art that the Rotterdam artist Louis van Roode made in his own city. From his hand is also the mosaic The journey of Erasmus on the Holbein House on the Coolsingel and the glass mosaic on the side facade of the renovated Station Post Office (Central Post) next to Central Station. The facade relief The family It shows a man and a woman with a child holding the hand between them. Below is an illustration of a dove (symbol of peace) and a bank building. The office can generally be seen as a reference to the city, but it is also a representation of the office of the Eerste Hollandse Levensverzekering Bank, which was located here at that time (1959) and was the client for Van Roode to create this artwork. The family is made of glazed chamotte clay and mosaic.
During the Reconstruction period, the Rotterdam artist Louis van Roode (Delft, 1914 - Rotterdam, 1964) often worked on commission for the new architecture. He made many murals and mosaics, which adorned modern architecture, but which also told their own story about nature, culture, man and the cosmos. Major works by his hand have been preserved in Rotterdam, but also in Vlissingen, Eindhoven and The Hague. He can rightly be called one of the greatest wall artists of his time.
Assignment during the construction of the First Dutch Life Insurance Bank
Owner
Property owner
Louis van Roode -
The family (1959)
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