Hendrik van den Eijnde

Hendrik Albertus van den Eijnde or van den Eynde

Life and work Hendrik van den Eijnde was born into a Catholic family in Haarlem. He continued to develop through practice and study and was supported by Bart van Hove from 1902. In 1903 he founded the Haarlem Art Circle together with Henri Boot, , , and Ben Kamp.

Van den Eijnde led the sculptor's studio with Hildo Krop, and on the sculpture decoration of the Scheepvaarthuis in Amsterdam, which was completed in 1916. This workshop gave a great impulse to the revival of stone sculpture in the Netherlands, where stone carving could be learned again. Most of their work parallels the heyday of the Amsterdam School. He started his own studio in 1917 and was a construction sculptor at the Government Buildings Agency from 1917 to 1923. Van den Eijnde lived in Haarlem and Heemstede and worked there until 1922. He was active as a sculptor of monuments and facade decorations on houses and commercial buildings.

Works (selection) Lieven de Key and Frans Hals, Houtbrug, Haarlem, Netherlands Four World Seas (1916), entrance sculptures of porphyry and terracotta, Scheepvaarthuis, Amsterdam Troelstranaald (1920), Kastanjestraat, Haarlem Entrance sculptures at broadcasting building A of Radio Kootwijk (1922), Radio Kootwijk, Apeldoorn Entrance sculptures (1924), Iepenlaan, Bloemendaal Statues and ornaments (1924), Hoofdpostkantoor, Utrecht Sculptures of lions (1925), later added to the Hoofdpostkantoor, Utrecht Coen, Daendels and Van Heutsz (1925), Netherlands Trading Society, building De Bazel, Vijzelstraat, Amsterdam Sculpture (1926), Magazijn de Bijenkorf, The Hague The Contemplation (1926), Sculpture second columbarium, Crematorium Westerveld Sculptures near the Grote Houtbrug, Haarlem Facade stone (1930), De Bijenkorf (Rotterdam), now in Woerden Learning through Play (1930), Julianaplein, Heemstede Pelican Nest (1932), relief (part of originally seven reliefs (titled Levensgang) that were designed for a now demolished office building of the insurance company OLVEH in The Hague), Laan van Rozenburg, Heemstede Entry of Saint Servatius and other reliefs (1932), from the pylons of the original Wilhelminabrug, Maastricht The Source (1936), Bronsteebrug, Heemstede Wilhelmina Memorial (1939), on the site where the Statue of Liberty now stands in Heemstede (the memorial was demolished by the occupying forces in 1941)

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