Oscar Leeuw

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Oscar (left) and Henri Leeuw in their architecture office (around 1910)
Family grave of the Leeuws in Nijmegen
(status 2008)

François Joseph Oscar Leeuw , mostly simplified Oscar Leeuw , (born July 28, 1866 in Roermond , † February 16, 1944 in Nijmegen ) was a Dutch architect .

Life

Leeuw was a son of the sculptor Henri Leeuw sr. (1819–1909), his older brother Henri Leeuw jr. (1861–1918) was a painter and sculptor. From 1879 to 1883 he attended the high school , then the drawing school in Roermond. From 1885 he worked for several years with the Roermond city architect Jan Jacob Weve (1852-1942). From 1891 to 1900 Leeuw worked as a drawing teacher at the municipal high school in Nijmegen. In 1898 he and his brother Henri were responsible for the artistic design of the historical parade on the occasion of the inauguration of Queen Wilhelminaresponsible. He then went freelance as an architect. He designed several villas and mansions in Nijmegen, with his brother Henri being responsible for the decoration. In 1905 he married Anna Helmers. On Graafseweg he built a modern house for himself and his family, in which he lived with his wife, father, brother and sister and in which his architectural office was located. In 1925, Leeuw moved with his wife and unmarried sister to the Villa Osanshoeve on Sophienweg in Nijmegen. The villa was confiscated by the German occupiers during World War II. Oscar did not live to see the end of the occupation, he died in 1944 and was buried in the Daalseweg cemetery.

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At the beginning of his work, Oscar Leeuw built in the style of Nieuwe Kunst ("New Art"), the Dutch form of Art Nouveau . Between 1910 and 1920 he developed an expressionist style. The Nieuwe Synagoge (Nijmegen, 1912), the Concertgebouw de Vereeniging (1914), the Nijmeegsche Bankvereeniging Van Engelenburg & Schippers (1920) and the Rijksmuseum GM Kam (1920) are among the highlights of this creative period. After that he became increasingly eclectic . The villas and mansions of Leeuw are characterized by characteristic ornaments and a rich and varied design that made extensive use of domes, towers, pavilions, bay windows and verandas. Oscar Leeuw had good connections with wealthy businessmen, industrialists and bankers. The department store chain Vroom & Dreesmann became an important customer. Leeuw was appointed permanent house architect for the company and was commissioned to design department stores in all major cities in the south-east of the Netherlands. In addition to the department store in Nijmegen, designed in 1924 and destroyed in World War II, the department stores in Venlo , 's-Hertogenbosch , Heerlen , Eindhoven and Tilburg were built . In addition to villas and department stores, Leeuw also designed a number of factory buildings such as the Honigcomplex (1922–1944 in Nijmegen), the Bergoss carpet factory with Villa Bergoss (1918/1919 in Oss ) and the factory building of the NV Automatic Screw Works (1918 in Nijmegen). From 1920 onwards, Oscar Leo's style became more impersonal and less recognizable. Many of its buildings have meanwhile been named Rijksmonumenten ("Reichsmonumente" in the sense of national monuments ) or Gemeentelijke Monuments (" Gemeentemonumente ").

Selection of his buildings

place building Construction year Remarks image
Ubbergen Villa "Dennenheuvel", Rijksstraatweg 46 1899-1900 Rijksmonument 522013
Nijmegen Molenstraat 94 1900-1900 Community monument 0268/1034
House with Art Nouveau features		 Nijmegen Molenstraat 94.JPG
Nijmegen Winkelhuis "Malmberg", St. Jorisstraat (today: Derde Walstraat ) 1900-1900 Destroyed in World War II
Berg en Dal - Beek Villa "Margot", Rijksstraatweg 72 1901-1901 Residential building of a farmstead with an Art Nouveau facade; Mixture of English country style and Art Nouveau Villa Margot, Rijksstraatweg 72 Beek Architect Oscar Leeuw 1901 Jugendstil.jpg
Berg en Dal-Beek Villa, Ravensberg 8 1901-1901
Berg en Dal-Beek Villa "Kastanjeoord", Ravensberg 14 1901-1905
Mook en Middelaar -Molenhoek De Mookerheide hunting lodge, Heumensebaan 18 1902-1905 Art Nouveau with Mozarabic and ancient Egyptian influences in the decorations of the facade.
Joint project with his brother Henri Leeuw jr.
  • Rijksmonument 522659 (hunting lodge)
  • Rijksmonument 522660 (parts of the superstructure)
  • Rijksmonument 522661 (walls with stairs)
  • Rijksmonument 522662 (small bridge)
  • Rijksmonument 522663 (Wildkeller)
  • Rijksmonument 522664 (greenhouse)
  • Rijksmonument 522665 (garden area) -
  • Rijksmonument 522666 (fruit wall)
  • Rijksmonument 522667 (greenhouse).
 Jachtslot de Mookerheide, Molenhoek.jpgInterior, overzicht trap naar verdieping - Molenhoek - 20002576 - RCE.jpg
Berg en Dal-Beek Villa "Salvé", Ravensberg 4 1903-1903
Berg en Dal-Beek Villa "Zonneheuvel", Ravensberg 2 1904-1904
Nijmegen Villa "The Corner", 2nd Oude Heselaan 522 1903-1903 Art Nouveau villa
community monument 0268/1655		 Villa The Corner 1903 Oscar Leeuw Art Nouveau Villa Hees Nijmegen.jpg
Nijmegen Graafseweg 58a / 60 1905-1905 Art deco ; owner-occupied building with an office in the basement and an apartment on the rise Graafseweg 58-60 Nijmegen Oscar Leeuw Art Deco Woonhuis Architectenbureau.jpg
Nijmegen “Hotel du Soleil”, Graafseweg 35 1905-1910 Cultivation
Nijmegen Villa "Sonnewyck", Berg en Dalseweg 125 1905-1910 Community monument 0268/649 Nijmegen Berg en Dalseweg 125 voorgevel.JPG
Nijmegen Van Welderenstraat 100-104 1909-1909 Art Nouveau
community monument 0268/2027
Former garage LA Moll		 Van Welderenstraat 100-104 voormalige garage LA Moll Nijmegen 1909 Jugendstil Art Nouveau Oscar Leeuw.jpg
Nijmegen Prins Bernhardstraat 1 + Oranjesingel 51 1908-1909 Rijksmonument 523024
House of Lambertus Cornelis van Engelenburg 		Woonhuis Lambertus Cornelis van Engelenburg Prins Bernhardstraat 1 Nijmegen van Architect Oscar Leeuw 1909.jpg
Nijmegen City villa, Bijleveldsingel 29, 31, 33 and 35 1910-1910 Art deco Stadsvilla, Bijleveldsingel 29, 31, 33 en 35 Nijmegen Art Deco Oscar Leeuw Art Nouveau 1910.jpg
Beuningen Villa "Vinckendael", Van Heemstraweg 58 1910 → 1910 Art Nouveau / Neo-Renaissance
Rijksmonument 523170		 Villa Vinckendael Beuningen 1910 Oscar Leeuw Jugendstil Art Nouveau neo-renaissance.jpg
Nijmegen Villa Salatiga , Sterreschansweg 77 1910-1911 Rijksmonument 522978 (villa)
Rijksmonument 522979 (tea dome)
Rijksmonument 522980 (greenhouse)
Rijksmonument 522981 (gate entrance)
Berg en Dal-Beek Villa, Ravensberg 1 1911-1912
Beneden-Leeuwen Villa “Quisisana”, Zandstraat 81 1911-1912 Rijksmonument 523085
Nijmegen Villa De Westerhelling , Sophiaweg 4 1912-1912 Art Nouveau / Eclecticism
Rijksmonument 523040		 Villa De Westerhelling Nijmegen Kwakkenberg Oscar Leeuw 1912 Art Nouveau Eclecticisme 3.jpg
Nijmegen Nieuwe Synagoge, Gerard Noodtstraat 21 1913-1913 Today
Rijksmonument Nature Museum 523060		 Synagogue Nijmegen.jpg
Nijmegen Concertgebouw de Vereeniging , Keizer Karelplein 2D 1914-1915 Art Deco
Rijksmonument 523000		 Concertgebouw de Vereeniging Nijmegen vooraanzicht zomer.jpg
Nijmegen Villa "De Zandkuil", Berg en Dalseweg 379 1915-1915 Villa De Zandkuil, Berg en Dalseweg 379 Nijmegen Bouwjaar 1915 Architect Oscar Leeuw.jpg
Nijmegen Factory building of NV Automatic Screw Works , Groenestraat 1918-1918
Oss Commercial building of the Bergoss carpet factory, Bram van den Berghstraat 22 1918-1919 Rijksmonument 516594 Oss Rijksmonument 516594 voorm.fabriek vd Bergh, Bram vd Berghstr.22.JPG
Nijmegen Museum Kam , Kamstraat 45 1919-1922 On behalf of the entrepreneur Gerard Marius Kam
Eclecticism
Rijksmonument 522950 (main building)
Rijksmonument 522951 (concierge
apartment ) Rijksmonument 522952 (enclosure)		 Nijmegen Rijksmonument 522950 Museum Kam vooraanzicht.JPG
Nijmegen Nijmeegsche Bankvereeniging Van Engelenburg & Schippers, Hertogstraat 68 1920-1921 Art Nouveau Nijmeegsche Bankvereeniging Van Engelenburg & Schippers aan de Hertogstraat in Nijmegen Oscar Leeuw Art Nouveau.jpg
Nijmegen Honey complex, Waalbandijk 20-22 1920-1944 Art deco Het Honigcomplex Nijmegen Oscar Leeuw 1926 Art Deco Waal zicht.jpg
Nijmegen Jewish cemetery, Postweg 62 1921-1921 Rijksmonument 522935 (cemetery complex)
Rijksmonument 522936 (development)
 Joodse begraafplaats (Nijmegen) .jpg
Nijmegen Villa, Paijensweg 7 1923-1923
Nijmegen Villa "Berg en Eik" (today: Villa "Marie-Louise"), Eversweg 4 1923-1924 Rijksmonument 522922 (villa)
Rijksmonument 522923 (garage)
Rijksmonument 522924 (tea dome)
Rijksmonument 522925 (gate entrance)		 Nijmegen Rijksmonument 522922 Marie Louise Villa Eversweg 4.JPG
Nijmegen Warenhuis Vroom & Dreesmann, Grote Markt 3 1923-1924 Destroyed by bombing in 1944
Nijmegen Villa "Osan's-Hoeve", Sophiaweg 73 1925-1925 Own house
Nijmegen Villa, Louiseweg 15 1926-1926
Nijmegen Grote Markt 30 1926-1926 Conversion for W. Heydt
Nijmegen Villa, Lindenlaan 4 1927-1927
Nijmegen Villa, Kwakkenbergweg 39 1927-1927
Nijmegen Villa, Kwakkenbergweg 82 1929-1929
Eindhoven Vroom & Dreesmann department store, Vrijstraat 11 1928-1930
Venlo Vroom & Dreesmann department store, Vleesstraat 32A 1929-1930 Art deco Vroom & Dreesman gebouw Venlo voorkant architect Oscar Leeuw 1930.jpg
's-Hertogenbosch Vroom & Dreesmann department store, Schapenmarkt 4 1929-1931 Expressionism
Rijksmonument 522519		 's-Hertogenbosch Rijksmonument 522519 Schapenmarkt 4, 6.JPG
Nijmegen Villa "De Berken", Theresiaweg 6 1930-1930
Tilburg Vroom & Dreesmann department store, Heuvelstraat 33 1933-1934
Tilburg Palace-City Hall , Stadhuisplein 128 1934-1936 Eclecticism
Rijksmonument 35745 Major
renovation of the former palace of King Willem II. 		Paleis-raadhuis.jpg

Fonts

  • Hendri Leeuw and Oscar Leeuw: Album van winkelpuien: verzameling van 100 practical ontwerpen . Cohen, Nijmegen / Arnhem 1898.

literature

  • Leeuw, François Joseph Oscar . In: HP van den Aardweg and JPJC Hüllstrung (Red.): Persoonlijkheden in het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden in woord en beeld . Van Holkema & Warendorf, Amsterdam 1938, p. 905, ( digitized ).
  • WJ Pantus: Oscar Leeuw 1866-1944, Architect . In: PW van Wissing, RM Kemperink, JAE Kuys and E. Pelzers (Red. :) Biographical Woordenboek Gelderland, deel 1. Bekende en onbekende mannen en vrouwen uit de Gelderse divorceis . Verloren, Hilversum 1998, pp. 60–62, ( digitized version )

Web links

Commons : Oscar Leeuw  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Gebroeders Leeuw on the website Huis van de Nijmeegse geschiedenis (Dutch), accessed on November 17, 2018
  • Oscar Leeuw , biography on Wendingen platform voor de Amsterdamse school , a website of the Amsterdamse school museum Het Ship , (Dutch), accessed on November 17, 2018
  • Kunstenaarsfamilie Leeuw on the website driemaalleeuw.com (Dutch), accessed on November 18, 2018

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Leeuw, François Joseph Oscar . In: HP van den Aardweg and JPJC Hüllstrung (Red.): Persoonlijkheden in het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden in woord en beeld . Van Holkema & Warendorf, Amsterdam 1938, p. 905, ( digitized ).
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ WJ Pantus: Oscar Leeuw 1866-1944, Architect . In: PW van Wissing, RM Kemperink, JAE Kuys and E. Pelzers (Red. :) Biographical Woordenboek Gelderland, deel 1. Bekende en onbekende mannen en vrouwen uit de Gelderse divorceis . Verloren, Hilversum 1998, pp. 60–62, ( digitized version )
  4. ↑ Oscar Leeuw , biography on Wendingen platform voor de Amsterdamse school , a website of the Amsterdamse school museum Het Ship , (Dutch), accessed on November 17, 2018.
  5. ↑ Gebroeders Leeuw on the website Huis van de Nijmeegse geschiedenis (Dutch), accessed on November 17, 2018.
  6. ↑ Rijksmonument 522,013 in the list of Rijksmonumente of the Netherlands (Dutch), accessed on 16 November 2018th
  7. ↑ a b c d List of monuments of the city of Nijmegen (Dutch), accessed on November 17, 2018.
  8. ↑ Rijksmonument 522659 in the list of Rijksmonumente of the Netherlands (Dutch), accessed on 13 November 2018th
  9. ↑ Rijksmonument 522660 in the directory of the Rijksmonumente of the Netherlands (Dutch), accessed on November 13, 2018.
  10. ↑ Rijksmonument 522,661 in the list of Rijksmonumente of the Netherlands (Dutch), accessed on 13 November 2018th
  11. ↑ Rijksmonument 522662 in the directory of the Rijksmonumente of the Netherlands (Dutch), accessed on November 13, 2018.
  12. ↑ Rijksmonument 522663 in the directory of the Rijksmonumente of the Netherlands (Dutch), accessed on November 13, 2018.
  13. ↑ Rijksmonument 522,664 in the list of Rijksmonumente of the Netherlands (Dutch), accessed on 13 November 2018th
  14. ↑ Rijksmonument 522665 in the directory of the Rijksmonumente of the Netherlands (Dutch), accessed on November 16, 2018.
  15. ↑ Rijksmonument 522666 in the directory of the Rijksmonumente of the Netherlands (Dutch), accessed on November 16, 2018.
  16. ↑ Rijksmonument 522,667 in the list of Rijksmonumente of the Netherlands (Dutch), accessed on 16 November 2018th
  17. ↑ Rijksmonument 523024 in the RCE monument directory (Dutch), accessed on November 17, 2018.
  18. ↑ Rijksmonument 523170 in the directory of the Rijksmonumente of the Netherlands (Dutch), accessed on November 13, 2018.
  19. ↑ Rijksmonument 522,978 in the list of Rijksmonumente of the Netherlands (Dutch), accessed on 17 November 2018th
  20. ↑ Rijksmonument 522,979 in the list of Rijksmonumente of the Netherlands (Dutch), accessed on 17 November 2018th
  21. ↑ Rijksmonument 522980 in the directory of the Rijksmonumente of the Netherlands (Dutch), accessed on November 17, 2018.
  22. ↑ Rijksmonument 522981 in the directory of the Rijksmonumente of the Netherlands (Dutch), accessed on November 17, 2018.
  23. ↑ Rijksmonument 523085 in the directory of the Rijksmonumente of the Netherlands (Dutch), accessed on November 13, 2018.
  24. ↑ Rijksmonument 523040 in the directory of the Rijksmonumente of the Netherlands (Dutch), accessed on November 17, 2018.
  25. ↑ Rijksmonument 523060 in the directory of the Rijksmonumente of the Netherlands (Dutch), accessed on November 17, 2018.
  26. ↑ Rijksmonument 523000 in the list of Rijksmonumente of the Netherlands (Dutch), accessed on 17 November 2018th
  27. ↑ Rijksmonument 516594 on the list of Dutch imperial monuments (Dutch), accessed on November 18, 2018.
  28. ↑ Rijksmonument 522950 Museum Kam on the list of Dutch Royal Monuments (Dutch), accessed on 17 November 2018th
  29. ↑ Rijksmonument 522951: Concier's apartment on the list of Dutch imperial monuments (Dutch), accessed on November 17, 2018.
  30. ↑ Rijksmonument 522952: fencing on the list of Dutch Royal Monuments (Dutch), accessed November 9, 2018th
  31. ↑ Rijksmonument 522,935 on the list of Dutch Royal Monuments (Dutch), accessed on 18 November 2018th
  32. ↑ Rijksmonument 522936 on the list of Dutch imperial monuments (Dutch), accessed on November 18, 2018.
  33. ↑ Rijksmonument 522,922 in the list of Rijksmonumente of the Netherlands (Dutch), accessed on 17 November 2018th
  34. ↑ Rijksmonument 522,923 in the list of Rijksmonumente of the Netherlands (Dutch), accessed on 17 November 2018th
  35. ↑ Rijksmonument 522924 in the directory of the Rijksmonumente of the Netherlands (Dutch), accessed on November 17, 2018.
  36. ↑ Rijksmonument 522925 in the directory of the Rijksmonumente of the Netherlands (Dutch), accessed on November 17, 2018.
  37. ↑ Rijksmonument 522519 in the directory of the Rijksmonumente of the Netherlands (Dutch), accessed on November 18, 2018.
  38. ↑ Rijksmonument 35745 in the list of Rijksmonumente of the Netherlands (Dutch), accessed on 13 November 2018th
personal data
SURNAME Leeuw, Oscar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leeuw, François Joseph Oscar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch architect
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Roermond
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1944
Place of death Nijmegen