Ontwerp voor een doopbeker 1911 - 1915

This is Mathieu Lauweriks' 'Ontwerp voor een doopbeker', or design for a baptismal font, made with graphite on paper. Looking at the pencil lines, I can almost feel Lauweriks’s hand moving across the page, meticulously sketching out the form and details of his design. There’s a quiet precision here, a meditative quality in the repetition of lines and geometric shapes. I wonder if Lauweriks felt a sense of calm, or maybe even a kind of spiritual connection, as he worked on this piece. The grid underneath gives the design a bit of structure, a rational underpinning. I can imagine him carefully considering each measurement, each proportion, striving for balance and harmony in the overall composition. Yet, within this framework, there’s a certain softness, an organic quality that emerges from the subtle variations in tone and texture. The drawing has a gentle, almost ethereal quality, evoking a sense of reverence and contemplation. I see the hand of the artist, but I also see something transcendent, something that speaks to the deeper mysteries of faith and ritual.