De Drum bearing Adri Blok's sculpture depicts a boy beating a drum with his palms flat. It serves as a lasting reminder of the Lijnbaan Shopping Promenade's first five-year anniversary, as the shopkeepers donated the figurative sculpture to the municipality in 1958. The Lijnbaan opened in 1953 and was designed by the architects Van den Broek and Bakema, who were responsible for many buildings in Rotterdam after World War II. Drum bearing symbolizes the atmosphere on the Lijnbaan in the 1989s: the boy proudly beats the drum to draw attention to this beautiful new shopping street. The statue was stolen in 1990, but was recreated and returned to its place in 2012. In mid-XNUMX, the work was given a new pedestal. Drum bearing fits nicely in the ensemble of bronze statues on and around the Lijnbaan, such as the Reading girl and the Playing bears.
Adriana Cornelia Blok (Rotterdam, 1919 – ibid., 1990) was born in Charlois and trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rotterdam. She was one of the first sculptors in the Netherlands to create concrete reliefs. Several of her bronze sculptures can be found in Rotterdam, such as Koos Speenhoff and the Drum bearingRead more about all schemes and additional terms and conditions here an article about this artist.
De Drum bearing Adri Blok's sculpture depicts a boy beating a drum with his palms flat. It serves as a lasting reminder of the Lijnbaan Shopping Promenade's first five-year anniversary, as the shopkeepers donated the figurative sculpture to the municipality in 1958. The Lijnbaan opened in 1953 and was designed by the architects Van den Broek and Bakema, who were responsible for many buildings in Rotterdam after World War II. Drum bearing symbolizes the atmosphere on the Lijnbaan in the 1989s: the boy proudly beats the drum to draw attention to this beautiful new shopping street. The statue was stolen in 1990, but was recreated and returned to its place in 2012. In mid-XNUMX, the work was given a new pedestal. Drum bearing fits nicely in the ensemble of bronze statues on and around the Lijnbaan, such as the Reading girl and the Playing bears.
Adriana Cornelia Blok (Rotterdam, 1919 – ibid., 1990) was born in Charlois and trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rotterdam. She was one of the first sculptors in the Netherlands to create concrete reliefs. Several of her bronze sculptures can be found in Rotterdam, such as Koos Speenhoff and the Drum bearingRead more about all schemes and additional terms and conditions here an article about this artist.
