Outdoor sculptures in the Netherlands * Curved Form (Bryher) is a

bronze Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12–12.5% tin and often with the addition of other metals (including aluminium, manganese, nickel, or zinc) and sometimes non-metals, such as phosphorus, or metalloids such ...

sculpture by

Barbara Hepworth Dame Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth (10 January 1903 – 20 May 1975) was an English artist and sculptor. Her work exemplifies Modernism and in particular modern sculpture. Along with artists such as Ben Nicholson and Naum Gabo, Hepworth was a leadi ...

, modeled in 1961. * De Schreeuw 2007, a

sculpture Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...

honoring Theo van Gogh (The Scream) * Elegy III (Hepworth) is an abstract bronze sculpture, by

Exposure (sculpture) Exposure (''Exposure'') is a steel frame sculpture on the Markerstrekdam near the Houtribsluizen in Lelystad Netherlands by artist Antony Gormley. The work is also known as Crouching man (''Squatting man''), or popularly called ''the Shitting Man ...

by artist

Antony Gormley Sir Antony Mark David Gormley (born 30 August 1950) is a British sculptor. His works include the ''Angel of the North'', a public sculpture in Gateshead in the north of England, commissioned in 1994 and erected in February 1998; ''Another Pla ...

Jardin d'émail Jardin d'émail (1968-1974) also known as Enamel garden is an outdoor sculpture in the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, The Netherlands. The sculpture was created by artist Jean Dubuffet. The artwork was designed for the Kröller-Müller Museu ...

by Jean Dubuffet, sculpture garden at Museum Kröller Müller *

Figure découpée Figure découpée or L'oiseau (1963, 1964, 1965) is an abstract sculpture by Pablo Picasso: there are a total of three Figure découpée sculptures. There is one located in Vondelpark NL, another on the campus of Massachusetts Institute of Tech ...

l’Oiseau (1963)

Vondelpark The Vondelpark () is a public urban park of 47 hectares (120 acres) in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It is part of the borough of Amsterdam-Zuid and situated west from the Leidseplein and the Museumplein. The park was opened in 1865 and originally nam ...

NL * Johnny Jordaanplein The square was named for a popular musician in the mid-1900s: Johnny Jordaan. There are bronze sculptures of Jordaan musical hall of fame. A statue of Johnny Jordaan was unveiled in 1991. There are sculptures of other performers:

Tante Leen Tante is the French, Dutch (Nederland), German, Danish, and Yiddish word for aunt (female sibling of a parent) ''Tante'' may also refer to: * A novel by Anne Douglas Sedgwick, upon which the film ''The Impossible Woman'' is based * Tante Leen (19 ...

, Johnny Meyer,

Manke Nelis Manke Nelis (born Cornelis Pieters; 1919-1993) was a Dutch singer in the levenslied genre. Career Manke Nelis was born in Groenlo on 16 December 1919 and began his musical career as a bass player, often accompanying his brother-in-law, accordionis ...

and Jan & Mien in the square. * The Blue Violin Player In 1982 the sculpture of a human figure running with a violin case was installed in Amsterdam. The Blue Violin Player appears to be rushing toward the

Bloemgracht The Bloemgracht () is a canal in the Jordaan district of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. It connects the Prinsengracht with the Lijnbaansgracht and runs between and parallel to Nieuwe Leliestraat and Bloemstraat in the Amsterdam-Centrum district. Th ...

tram stop, while carrying a violin case. * Torentje van Drienerlo is a 1979 artwork by Dutch artist

Wim T. Schippers Willem Theodoor "Wim T." Schippers (; born 1 July 1942) is a Dutch artist, comedian, television director, and voice actor. During the 1960s, he worked mostly as a visual artist, associated with the international Fluxus-movement. As a television w ...

, located on the campus of the

University of Twente The University of Twente (Dutch: ''Universiteit Twente''; , abbr. ) is a public technical university located in Enschede, Netherlands. The university has been placed in the top 170 universities in the world by multiple central ranking tables. ...

Enschede Enschede (; known as in the local Twents dialect) is a municipality and city in the eastern Netherlands in the province of Overijssel and in the Twente region. The eastern parts of the urban area reaches the border of the German city of Gronau ...

Gallery

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The Scream ''The Scream'' is a composition created by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch in 1893. The agonized face in the painting has become one of the most iconic images of art, seen as symbolizing the anxiety of the human condition. Munch's work, including ...

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File:KMM Hepworth Elegy III.JPG, KMM Hepworth Elegy III File:Universiteit Twente Torentje van Drienerlo 2005-07-10.jpg, Torentje van Drienerlo File:Jardin d'émail Dubuffet.jpg, Jardin d'émail Dubuffet File:Tweede Marnixplantsoen, De blauwe vioolspeler foto 1.JPG, De Blauwe Vioolspeler File:Johnnyjordaanbeeld.jpg, Bust of Johnny Jordaan on Johnny Jordaanplein, Elandsgracht near the Prinsengracht. File: Jordaan2000.jpg, Bust of Tante Leen and Manke Nelis on the Johnny Jordaanplein , Elandsgracht at the Prinsengracht.

References

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