Michel de Klerk
Dutch architect

Michel de Klerk

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Dutch architect
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Michel De Klerk
Gender:
Male
Places:
Netherlands
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Architect
Work field:
Engineering
Birth:
24 November 1884(Amsterdam, Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands)
Death:
24 November 1923(Amsterdam, Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands)
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Michel de Klerk (November 24, 1884, Amsterdam – November 24, 1923, Amsterdam) was a Dutch architect. Born to a Jewish family, he was one of the founding architects of the movement Amsterdam School (Expressionist architecture). Early in his career he worked for other architects, including Eduard Cuypers. For a while, he also employed the Indonesian-born Liem Bwan Tjie, who would later become his country's pioneering proponent of the Amsterdam School and modern architecture. Of his many outstanding designs, very few have actually been built. One of his finest completed buildings is 'Het Schip' (The Ship) in the Amsterdam district of Spaarndammerbuurt.

Amsterdam West

Michel de Klerk

Eigen Haard (Own Hearth), working-class Socialist housing, consisting of three groups of buildings:

  • (1) Spaarndammerplantsoen, North side (1913–15)
  • (2) Spaarndammerplantsoen, South side (1915–16)
  • (3) 'Het Schip', Zaanstraat / Oostzaanstraat / Hembrugstraat (1917–20)

  • Air view, Eigen Haard (left)

  • Situation plan: (3) (1) (2)

  • (1) Spaarndammer- plantsoen, North side

  • Original state, 1915

  • Spaarndammerplantsoen 88-102.JPG
  • Spaarndammer Plantsoen pic1.JPG

  • (2) Spaarndammer- plantsoen, South side

  • Original state, 1916

  • Overzicht hoek - Amsterdam - 20320136 - RCE.jpg
  • Blok spaarndammerplantsoen nr.33.JPG
  • Amsterdam Spaarndammerplantsoen 0033 001.JPG

  • (3) 'Het Schip', Zaanstraat

  • Zaanstraat

  • Oostzaanstraat

  • Oostzaanstraat

  • Hembrugstraat

  • Amsterdam Het Schip 007.JPG

  • Hembrugstraat

  • Zaanstraat

Amsterdam South

De Dageraad (The Dawn), working-class Socialist housing by Michel de Klerk and Piet Kramer (1920–23). The architectural contribution by Michel de Klerk is shown in this article. See also Piet Kramer.

  • Situation plan

  • Thérèse Schwartzeplein (Henriette Ronnerplein)

  • Thérèse Schwartzeplein

  • Burg. Tellegenstraat, de Klerk (r), Kramer (m)

  • Facades with sloping lines by de Klerk

  • Entrance

  • Vrijheidslaan, middle-class housing (1921–23)

Wendingen

Buildings, projects and drawings by Michel de Klerk are published in the architecture and art magazine Wendingen (1918-1932). Three covers of this magazine are designed by de Klerk.

  • 1918-2, cover

  • 1920-3/4, cover

  • 1921-3, cover (back)

  • 1924-9/10, buildings

  • 1924-4/5, projects

  • 1924-2, drawings