Due to the strikingly jarring paintwork in red, yellow, and blue on the newly built houses in 1920, the row of houses on Torenstraat in Drachten was given the unflattering derogatory nickname or derogatory name 'Parrot Neighborhood'. After two years, the brightly colored houses received...
The Image Bank of the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands contains an enormous number of images from four categories—monuments, archaeology, cultural landscape & collections—that have been created over the past 150 years. In mid-March 2019, shortly after the application, the Image Bank received the status...
It is 100 years ago that the magazine De Stijl was founded in Leiden under the editorship of Theo van Doesburg. In this magazine, diverse artists, designers, and architects published their innovative ideas of the De Stijl art movement, which included Piet Mondrian, Bart...
Three current points of interest have prompted me to draw your attention now to the '100 Years of De Stijl' stamp issue, which will not be available for purchase until March 27, 2017: The newspaper headline 'Museum Dr8888 kicks off Stijl Year 2017' from the...
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