Henri Leeuw Jr.

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Henri Leeuw (right) and Oscar in their architecture office (around 1910)
Stained glass window depicting the legend of Hubert in the hunting lodge de Mookerheide
Lion in the Kronenburgerpark

Henri Leeuw Jr. (* October 7, 1861 in Roermond ; † June 12, 1918 in Nijmegen ) was a Dutch painter and sculptor.

life and work

Leeuw was a son of the sculptor Henri Leeuw sr. and his second wife Anna Amelia Hubertina Raemaekers. His brother was the architect Oscar Leeuw . He obtained his Abitur, taught for a short time in Warffum and from 1983 at a higher middle-class school in Nijmegen. There he also gave private drawing lessons, including his nephew, who later became the political draftsman Louis Raemaekers .

Leeuw worked as a watercolorist, illustrator, eraser and graphic artist. He worked closely with his brother Oscar, with whom he designed a number of buildings, primarily being responsible for the interior design and decorative parts. The highlights of this cooperation were the design of the hunting lodge de Mookerheide in 1902 and the construction of the Art Deco- style Concertgebouw de Vereeniging ("Concert Hall of the Association)" in Nijmegen in 1914/1915 . In 1916 the Small Hall of the Concertgebouw De Vereeniging was completed with murals by Henri Leeuw and Huib Luns. For the hunting lodge de Mookerheide, an Art Nouveau building with Mozarabic and ancient Egyptian influences in the decorations of the facade, Leeuw designed, among other things, a glass window depicting the Hubertus legend . Both facilities, the hunting lodge and the concert building, are now listed as Rijksmonumente ("Reichsmonumente" in the sense of national monuments).

Together with his father, he made the limestone statue of the lion in Kronenburgerpark in 1886 , which is now also a listed monument as a Rijksmonument. The lion, over two meters high, consists of Savonnières on a two-meter high base. The seated lion has opened its mouth and turned its head to the left. Its tail runs forward along its left hind leg. A cartouche between the legs shows the coat of arms of the city with the double-headed eagle.

In 1898 he and his brother Oscar were responsible for the artistic design of the historical parade on the occasion of the inauguration of Queen Wilhelmina . From 1905 he gave no drawing lessons for health reasons. Henri Leeuw Jr. died at the age of fifty-seven and is buried in Nijmegen.

literature

  • Ype Koopmans: Muurvast & Gebeiteld. Beeldhouwkunst in de bouw 1840–1940 . NAI, Rotterdam 1997, pp. 303f.
  • Willem Jan Pantus: De grootst mogelijke eer. Oscar en Henri Leeuw jr. as ontwerpers van de historic optocht theid van de inhuldiging van Koningin Wilhelmina in 1898. Jaarboek Numaga 52, Nijmegen 2005.
  • Pieter A. Scheen: Lexicon Nederlandse beeldende kunstenaars, 1750-1880 . Scheen, 's-Gravenhage, 1981, p. 309.

Web links

Commons : Henri Leeuw jr.  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rijksmonument 522659 (main building) , Rijksmonument 522660 (parts of the construction) , Rijksmonument 522661 (walls with stairs) , Rijksmonument 522662 (small bridge) , Rijksmonument 522663 (wild cellar) , Rijksmonument 522664 (greenhouse) , Rijksmonument 522665 (garden monument 522665 ) , Rijksmonument 522665 (Fruit wall) , Rijksmonument 522667 (greenhouse) in the directory of the Rijksmonumente of the Netherlands (Dutch), accessed November 18, 2018.
  2. ↑ Rijksmonument 523000 in the list of Rijksmonumente of the Netherlands (Dutch), accessed on 18 November 2018th
  3. ↑ a b Kunstenaarsfamilie Leeuw on the website driemaalleeuw.com (Dutch), accessed on November 18, 2018.
  4. ↑ Rijksmonument 522960 in the Dutch directory of Rijksmonumenten (Dutch), accessed on November 18, 2018.
  5. ↑ Willem Jan Pantus: De grootst mogelijke eer. Oscar en Henri Leeuw jr. as ontwerpers van de historic optocht theid van de inhuldiging van Koningin Wilhelmina in 1898. Jaarboek Numaga 52, Nijmegen 2005.
personal data
SURNAME Leeuw, Henri Jr.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Roermond
DATE OF DEATH June 12, 1918
Place of death Nijmegen