Portiek van de Zuiderkerk te Enkhuizen 1938

Huib Luns created this drawing, *Portiek van de Zuiderkerk te Enkhuizen*, with pen in the early 20th century. The building looms, filling nearly the entire composition with only a sliver of ground visible. Luns skillfully uses line and texture to create depth, evoking a sense of the monumental. The drawing is built on contrasts. We see it in the crisp, precise lines of the architecture against the softer, textured rendering of the brick and stone, highlighting a play between order and irregularity. The composition draws the eye upward, guided by the imposing facade and the intricate details of the doorway. The semiotic weight of the gate, barring entry to the church, can suggest ideas about inclusion, exclusion, and perhaps even the secularization of society. The building presents both a solid, geometric structure and a surface subject to time and decay. This tension between the ideal form and material reality is central to the drawing’s aesthetic power. This interplay invites us to consider how architectural forms function not just as structures, but as cultural signs that evolve with our interpretations.