
Jan Gratama (16 August 1877 – 12 December 1947), was a Dutch architect.
Biography
He was born in
Groningen
Groningen (; gos, Grunn or ) is the capital city and main municipality of Groningen province in the Netherlands. The ''capital of the north'', Groningen is the largest place as well as the economic and cultural centre of the northern part of t ...
and was the younger brother of the artist and museum director
Gerrit David Gratama. His sister
Lina Gratama
Petronella Johanna Carolina "Lina" Gratama (1875–1946) was a Dutch painter, art historian, and political activist.
Biography
Gratama was born on 19 March 1875 in Groningen. She is the sister of the architect Jan Gratama and the painter Gerr ...
(1875-1946) was a painter He studied at the
Polytechnical School of Delft
Delft University of Technology ( nl, Technische Universiteit Delft), also known as TU Delft, is the oldest and largest Dutch public university, public Institute of technology, technical university, located in Delft, Netherlands. As of 2022 it is r ...
and became an amateur portrait artist like his older brother.
[Jan Gratama]
in the RKD
The Netherlands Institute for Art History or RKD (Dutch: RKD-Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis), previously Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD), is located in The Hague and is home to the largest art history center i ...
He was an artistic advisor to his sister Lina, who also became a portrait artist, and became known for her copies of the works in the
Mauritshuis
The Mauritshuis (; en, Maurice House) is an art museum in The Hague, Netherlands. The museum houses the Royal Cabinet of Paintings which consists of 854 objects, mostly Dutch Golden Age paintings. The collection contains works by Johannes Vermeer ...
and the
Gemeentemuseum Den Haag
The Kunstmuseum Den Haag is an art museum in The Hague in the Netherlands, founded in 1866 as the Museum voor Moderne Kunst. Later, until 1998, it was known as Haags Gemeentemuseum, and until the end of September 2019 as Gemeentemuseum Den Haag. I ...
.
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In 1908 he established an architecture bureau in Amsterdam, where he worked with ]Berlage
Hendrik Petrus Berlage (21 February 1856 – 12 August 1934) was a Dutch architect. He is considered one of the fathers of the architecture of the Amsterdam School.
Life and work
Hendrik Petrus Berlage, son of Nicolaas Willem Berlage and An ...
and others in the style of the Amsterdam School
The Amsterdam School (Dutch: ''Amsterdamse School'') is a style of architecture that arose from 1910 through about 1930 in the Netherlands. The Amsterdam School movement is part of international Expressionist architecture, sometimes linked ...
. His partners in his architect bureau were Gerrit Versteeg from 1914 and Jan Willem Dinger from 1930, who continued the bureau after Gratama died in 1947.
Works in Amsterdam
File:Olympia-Olympiakade.JPG, Olympia-complex, 1924
File:Transvaalkade.jpg, Transvaalkade (subsidized housing), 1920s
File:Amsterdam - corner Dam-Damrak architect Jan Gratama.jpg, Office building ''De Bisschop'', corner of the Dam and Damrak in Amsterdam. It was built in 1934 for the ''Incasso Bank'' (later integrated into AMRO Bank
The AMsterdamsche en ROtterdamsche Bank (AMRO Bank , "Bank of Amsterdam and Rotterdam") was a major Dutch bank that was created in 1964 by the merger of the Amsterdamsche Bank (est. 1871) and the Rotterdamsche Bank (est. 1863). In 1991, it merged ...
).
References
External links
Jan Gratama
in the Netherlands Architecture Institute
The Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI) was a cultural institute for architecture and urban development, which comprised a museum, an archive plus library and a platform for lectures and debates. The NAI was established in 1988 and was ba ...
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1877 births
1947 deaths
Dutch architects
People from Groningen (city)