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Dutch architect (–)

Michel de Klerk (24 November , Amsterdam &#; 24 November , Amsterdam) was a Dutch architect.

Michel de Klerk, (—) was an architect and leader of the school of Amsterdam, which emphasized individualism, fantasy, and picturesqueness in its.

Dutch architect Michel de Klerk ca.

Michel de Klerk was an architect and leader of the school of Amsterdam, which stressed individualism, fantasy, and picturesqueness in its.

De Klerk grew up in poverty in Amsterdam's Jewish quarter.

Biographical Note: The following page diary was donated to the Navy by the Dutch Priest Father Emery De Klerk.

Born to a Jewish family,^[1] 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.^[2]

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

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

• (1) Spaarndammerplantsoen, North side (–)
• (2) Spaarndammerplantsoen, South side (–)
• (3) 'Het Schip', Zaanstraat / Oostzaanstraat / Hembrugstraat (–)