The Rotterdam artist Louis van Roode gained fame for his decorations on apartment buildings and monumental properties during Rotterdam's reconstruction period. Through collaboration with architects, the city's reconstruction after World War II offered him new opportunities for creating artworks. This untitled artwork is an example of this. Van Roode designed the entire east facade of the Calandlyceum in 1962 (now Wolfort Dalton College). The enormous facade work emphasized the entrance to the school building and made the building visible from afar; it was a true eye-catcher. Van Roode made optimal use of the architecture's generous dimensions. The facade relief is approximately 15 meters wide and 7 meters high, and it weighs 100 tons. In the dynamic composition, the planes appear to move from a center outwards beyond the boundaries of the building. The work has a great monumental presence. Van Roode also used an innovative technique: glass shards incorporated into a highly sculptural-looking concrete relief. Due to the demolition of the old school building, the work was sawn off the facade in June 2024 and restored on the construction site. During the preliminary phase, BKOR advised the Municipality of Rotterdam to retain the artwork for the location. On March 12, 2025, the relief was placed in its final new location near the entrance to the new building for Mytylschool de Brug. Unfortunately, the concrete relief was too heavy to be mounted on the new facade. Consequently, it was placed loosely on a foundation on the school grounds.
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.
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The Rotterdam artist Louis van Roode gained fame for his decorations on apartment buildings and monumental properties during Rotterdam's reconstruction period. Through collaboration with architects, the city's reconstruction after World War II offered him new opportunities for creating artworks. This untitled artwork is an example of this. Van Roode designed the entire east facade of the Calandlyceum in 1962 (now Wolfort Dalton College). The enormous facade work emphasized the entrance to the school building and made the building visible from afar; it was a true eye-catcher. Van Roode made optimal use of the architecture's generous dimensions. The facade relief is approximately 15 meters wide and 7 meters high, and it weighs 100 tons. In the dynamic composition, the planes appear to move from a center outwards beyond the boundaries of the building. The work has a great monumental presence. Van Roode also used an innovative technique: glass shards incorporated into a highly sculptural-looking concrete relief. Due to the demolition of the old school building, the work was sawn off the facade in June 2024 and restored on the construction site. During the preliminary phase, BKOR advised the Municipality of Rotterdam to retain the artwork for the location. On March 12, 2025, the relief was placed in its final new location near the entrance to the new building for Mytylschool de Brug. Unfortunately, the concrete relief was too heavy to be mounted on the new facade. Consequently, it was placed loosely on a foundation on the school grounds.
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.
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Louis van Roode -
Untitled (1962)
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