About the artwork
Sculptor Joan Bakker was good at creating work that came into its own from afar. This also applies to this facing brick Children with landing netThe deep diagonals ensure that the main lines of the work can be discerned from across the street. The stone features beautiful lines and a composition of flowing and straighter contours. The work is 150 cm high and depicts two seated children. The figure on the left is holding a fishing net. The work was created under the percentage scheme and has been prominently displayed on the facade facing the schoolyard since 1960. The school has since been renovated, and the artwork restored and integrated into the modified facade. In the evening, the stone is illuminated.
About the artist
Joannes (Joan) Petrus Anthonius Maria Bakker (Oosterblokker, 1919 - 1999) attended the Academy of Visual Arts in Rotterdam, after which he settled permanently in Rotterdam. He was, among others, a student of Herman Mees (1880 - 1964) and the husband of sculptor and ceramist Riet (Maria) Elias. He made it together with Jan Poot (architect at the Municipality of Rotterdam) Liberation Monument at the Brink in Vreewijk, Feijenoord. On an office building on the Botersloot, he designed ornaments with great visual power and clear stonemasonry qualities. He was proficient with the hardest types of stone, in which he applied reliefs paying attention to the role of light falling on the different types of stone. Several works by Joan Bakker can be found in Rotterdam. Read here an article about the artist.
About the artwork
Sculptor Joan Bakker was good at creating work that came into its own from afar. This also applies to this facing brick Children with landing netThe deep diagonals ensure that the main lines of the work can be discerned from across the street. The stone features beautiful lines and a composition of flowing and straighter contours. The work is 150 cm high and depicts two seated children. The figure on the left is holding a fishing net. The work was created under the percentage scheme and has been prominently displayed on the facade facing the schoolyard since 1960. The school has since been renovated, and the artwork restored and integrated into the modified facade. In the evening, the stone is illuminated.
About the artist
Joannes (Joan) Petrus Anthonius Maria Bakker (Oosterblokker, 1919 - 1999) attended the Academy of Visual Arts in Rotterdam, after which he settled permanently in Rotterdam. He was, among others, a student of Herman Mees (1880 - 1964) and the husband of sculptor and ceramist Riet (Maria) Elias. He made it together with Jan Poot (architect at the Municipality of Rotterdam) Liberation Monument at the Brink in Vreewijk, Feijenoord. On an office building on the Botersloot, he designed ornaments with great visual power and clear stonemasonry qualities. He was proficient with the hardest types of stone, in which he applied reliefs paying attention to the role of light falling on the different types of stone. Several works by Joan Bakker can be found in Rotterdam. Read here an article about the artist.
