Thursday, March 15, 2007

Johannes Radecker


Hi I’m friso and I’m gonna tell about Johannes Radecker also called Johannes Anton Raedecker

He was born in Amsterdam in 1885
Johannes Radecker is a famous sculptor and made some paintings .
At first one thing is to say about his paintings.
In all his work sensuality and sensitivity are in the shape of his work sometimes made it looks to have a religious source.
here to the right you see a famous painting of Johannnes Radecker
One of his naked figurs>


His sculptures He was a better sculptor than painter

In the twenty's and thirty's he was called the godfather of sculpturing in Holland

Something what made him very famous was the statue of liberty he made the sculptures that

are hanging on the pillar. This is the statue of freedom on the dam
When liberation day is there at 4/5 may the queen and other people of influence hang flowers at the statue to honour the people that died and gave their life in war.


When in 1952 he got the assignment to make the statue of liberty on the dam in Amsterdam, he was getting ill he got the disease of his work silicoses, you can get that disease when you sculpture a lot cause the dust that come from the stone. Cause when you breath in the dust from the stone you get after a while dust-lungs (silicoses)
When you use sand stone the risk is the highest.
Everyone knew that the disease Silicoses excited and had serious consequences even dead.
But Radecker never took any precautions and he smoked what you know is also very bad for your lungs

When he had finished his women sculpture what stood for peace at 12 January , the sculpture was hung on the pillar at the dam the sculpture was 3.5 tons heavy. It was a great success for him to make a sculpture that famous at night when the statue was hanged on the pillar at the dam he died in that night.
Johannes raedecker was the only man that could shape a stone that smoothly and so pretty

This was my part about a famous artist Johannes Radecker


http://www.trouw.nl/degids/gidsartikelen/article548360.ece/John_Radecker_kon_als_geen_ander_een_fluweelzachte_huid_uit_zandsteen_hakken

.http://www.kunstbus.nl/verklaringen/john+radecker.html

1 comment:

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