Kees Timmer Untitled (1958)

This formidable graphic was made by the talented sculptor Kees Timmer on the outside wall of Bureau Marconiplein in 1958. This police station was intended for parking police and was destroyed in the mistaken bombing of 1943. The slightly curved L-shaped building, designed by municipal architect Leo Voskuyl, has its main entrance on Hudsonstraat. This entrance is marked by a concrete canopy with balcony, two free-standing columns and a artwork by Ian Pieters, which depicts the battle between good and evil. The protective task of the police is depicted by Kees Timmer in the gable on the Schiedamseweg. This facade decoration shows a woman and a police officer. The hand and the two blue squares symbolize the agent. There is a white kitten on the woman's hair. At the bottom two children playing with a ball. The line on the right could represent the city. It is a magnificent large work, consisting of 60 concrete slabs, and it has a beautiful elegance that is accompanied by a very graphic monumental approach. Timmer generally used a cartoonish style in his work, leaning towards caricature, as well as an interest in primitive forms. They come together in this object. That makes this work a striking characterization of human and animal forms; a common thread in his oeuvre.