Geert Lebbing Musicians (1965)

In 1965, the Association 'A school with the Bible' commissioned sculptor and environmental artist Geert Lebbing to create a sculpture of a group of six musicians for the Protestant Christian Mavo school on Foeliestraat. The bronze figures are placed low on two stone bases. They stand alternately with their faces and their backs turned to the spectator and play a clarinet, guitar, bass, piccolo, mandolin and violin. The artwork Musicians is intended to appeal to the young target group of a school. In the 1960s it was not unusual to make bronze statues for school environments, often figurative representations of children, with which students could feel a connection and which visually added to the schoolyard. In September 1965 the school was enriched with this bronze sculpture. In 1980 the statue was moved for the first time and in 2013 the statue was placed at the Campus Hoogvliet. During the redevelopment of the site it was placed in a raised green zone there.