Willem Cornelis Bauer Explained

Willem Cornelis Bauer
Birth Date:31 July 1862
Birth Place:The Hague, Netherlands
Death Place:Hilversum, Netherlands
Nationality:Dutch
Known For:Painting, etching and architecture
Notable Works:Walden, Villa Eikenhof

Willem Cornelis Bauer (The Hague, 31 July 1862 – Hilversum, 24 April 1904) also known as Wilhelm Bauer was a Dutch architect and painter.[1] [2] [3]

Life course

Youth and education

Like his younger brother painter Marius Bauer, Willem Cornelis Bauer was born in an art-loving environment, the children learned to draw at an early age. His father, George Hendrik Bauer,[4] was a decorator and his mother, Maria Suzanne Verpoorten, came from a family of painters.

Bauer studied at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, his fellow students included Karel de Bazel, Willem Kromhout. In 1888 he became a member of Architectura et Amicitia, where he also got to know Herman Cornelis Jorissen, Mathieu Lauweriks and Herman Walenkamp.[5]

Bauer works for a period as a designer at the architectural firm Salm in Amsterdam, where he also lived.[6]

Fame

Bauer lived temporarily in America at a young age, in the town of Elizabeth in the state of New Jersey. There he eventually became known for his paintings and watercolors of landscapes.[7]

Bauer was best known in the Netherlands as the architect of the colony Walden started by the Dutch writer and psychiatrist Frederik van Eeden, where he also had his atelier in a hut he designed himself. Although he was often absent from here later on. The idea for this colony came from the American Henry Thoreau, who wrote the book Walden.[8]

From 1891, he used late Gothic Islamic and Byzantine style elements in his designs. Although he used his talent to make many competition designs for a church, concert hall, theater and congress buildings, he did not want to compromise and possibly adapt his designs at the request of others. The jury often found his designs unconventional, which meant that he had little success in this field.[9]

In the Netherlands, in the course of the nineties of the 19th-century, the idea of fair, rural architecture was picked up, just as with the English Arts and crafts movement of the 1870s. A crucial role in this concept change played the architect Willem Bauer, who died young, K.P.C. de Bazel and Johan Wilhelm Hanrath.[10] Eventually Bauer became the architect of intimate country houses and studio houses. The style of many of the houses designed by him is often characterized by exterior facades that are partially white finished with wooden details, in a romantic style. He designed a number of huts and villas in Bussum, for family and friends of Frederik van Eeden. Also a villa for Johanna Bonger (the sister-in-law of Vincent van Gogh) and a villa for George Breitner and his brother Marius Bauer. Willem Bauer also designed other houses in the Netherlands, but his oeuvre in this area has remained limited.[11] Architect Willem Bauer is seen as one of the founders of the Gooise Country House style.

Death

At the end of his life he suffered from depression for which he was being treated by the psychiatrist Frederik van Eeden and he suffered from syphilitic paralysis. Van Eeden eventually found Bauer dead by suicide.[12] He was buried on 29 April 1904 at the Bosdrift General Cemetery in Hilversum, near the place where he recently lived, on the Roeltjesweg in Hilversum. The newspaper Hilversumsche Courant of 30 April 1904 wrote in a necrology: He understood the rare art of building a homely house.[13] On April 24 2023 there was a small ceremony at the place Bauer was buried, at this occasion a gravestone was placed.[14]

List of buildings

Bussum
Blaricum
Bloemendaal/Aerdenhout

Literature

References

This contains content from https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_Cornelis_Bauer

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Bauer, W.C. . 2022-11-06 . database.historischekringbussum.nl.
  2. Web site: Discover Architect, watercolorist, lithographer Willem Bauer. 2022-11-06 .
  3. Web site: Willem Cornelis Bauer, Nederlandse architect en Amerikaanse kunstschilder . 2022-11-07. nl.
  4. Web site: Ontdek schilder, decoratieschilder (van interieurs), glasschilder George Hendrik Bauer . 2022-11-06 . rkd.nl . nl.
  5. Dutch Architecture 1893 - 1918, Architectura, page 5, Architecture Museum Amsterdam, Publisher Van Gennep 1975, ISBN 9789060123003
  6. Web site: Registration on July 31, 1862 . 2022-11-06 . openarch.nl.
  7. Web site: Artist Info . 2022-11-06 . www.nga.gov.
  8. Web site: Walden by Frederik van Eeden . 2022-11-11 . www.dbnl.org.
  9. Web site: 2010-10-20 . A Forgotten Architectural Fantasist . 2022-11-06 . Andrew Cusack . en.
  10. Web site: Van boerderij tot landhuis in ‘Gooise’ stijl. . 2022-11-06 . www.historischeinterieursamsterdam.nl (in Dutch).
  11. Web site: De Hilversumsche Courant . 2022-11-11 . Gooi & Vecht Historical Archive . nl.
  12. Web site: Ons Bloemendaal . 2022-11-06 . Krantenviewer Noord-Hollands Archief . nl.
  13. Web site: De Hilversumsche Courant . 2022-11-11 . Gooi & Vecht Historical Archive . nl.
  14. https://www.gooieneembode.nl/nieuws/mensen/313176/eindelijk-krijgt-architect-walden-willem-cornelius-bauer-zijn
  15. Web site: Hof van Eden. 2022-11-10 . www.monumentenregistererfgoed.nl.
  16. Web site: Villa De Maerle . 2022-11-10 . www.tgooi.info.
  17. Web site: Hut of Carry van Hoogstraten . 2022-11-10 . www.historischekringbussum.nl.
  18. Web site: Villa De Lelie . 2022-11-10 . www.monumentenregistererfgoed.nl.
  19. Web site: Villa de Lelie. www.historischekringbussum.nl.
  20. Web site: Villa Boschlust. 2022-11-10. www.tgooi.info.
  21. Web site: Hof van Eden. 2022-11-10 . www.monumenten.nl.
  22. Web site: House for reverend Walden . www.historischekringbussum.nl.
  23. Web site: House Thea, Six Architects .
  24. Web site: Villa Stamboel . 2022-11-10.
  25. Web site: Villa De Merel . 2022-11-10.
  26. Web site: House Gimli . 2022-11-10.
  27. Web site: Villa Duinweide . 2022-11-10.
  28. Web site: Villa Rockaersduin. 2022-11-10.
  29. Web site: The Modern countryhouse in the Netherlands . 2022-11-06 .

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