Plattegrond van een huis 1890 - 1946

Editor: This is "Plattegrond van een huis" or "Plan of a House," a drawing on paper by Cornelis Vreedenburgh, made sometime between 1890 and 1946. I find its incompleteness really striking; it feels like a glimpse into an artist's thought process, a fleeting idea captured on paper. What stands out to you about this sketch? Curator: It's interesting you say "fleeting idea." To me, this isn't just a technical drawing; it feels intensely personal, doesn't it? Imagine Vreedenburgh, hunched over this page, dreaming of spaces. Perhaps he’s mapping out a future home or redesigning one in his memory? That heavy shadow next to what looks like a door makes me wonder: Was it a beloved space, or one fraught with difficult memories? The roughly sketched architectural layout makes you feel that there might have been some struggle to put on paper all of his vision of space, do you not agree? Editor: Absolutely. The shadow adds an unexpected emotional weight. It makes you wonder about the story behind this space and what Vreedenburgh wanted to capture by highlighting it. Was he successful do you think, at conveying that vision? Curator: Success is in the eye of the beholder, as they say. But there is so much personality there that transcends just creating the rendering. Whether it was some kind of study on urban cityscapes, or an amateur project from his sketchbook, his attention to architectural forms allows a portal to look through his own personal expression. Looking closer it makes me wonder if those messy sketches may even represent emotional experiences with past occupants... The more I think about the house and its blueprint form, the more a complex psychological reading is being established! Editor: I never would have considered it from that perspective! It shows me to appreciate the emotion of architectural concepts. Curator: Precisely. What appeared initially as an unfinished diagram gradually morphed into a complex reflection of memory, desire, and feeling. Now what does *that* feel like, after taking the turn with me?