WITKACY / Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (1885-1939)

4 pictures


Location: Ks. Józefa Szafranka, Katowice, Poland.
Maker: Tomasz Wenklar.
Photos: © Albert Hagenaars. 18 July 2011.
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JOSÉ-MARIA DE HEREDIA (1842-1905)

Location: Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris.
Maker: Victor Segoffin, 1925.
Photos: © Albert Hagenaars. 26 October 2010.
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NORDAHL GRIEG (1902-1943)

Location: Den Nationale Scene, Engen 1, Bergen, Norway.
Maker: Roar Bjorg. Established in 1990.
Photo: © Albert Hagenaars. 18 August 2011.
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GEORG BÖTTICHER (1849-1918)

2 pictures


Location: Townhall, Naschmarkt, Leipzig, Germany.
Maker: Carl Seffner. Established in November 1918, by the Leoniden-artists.
Photo: © Albert Hagenaars. 16 July 2011.
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Location: Townhall, Naschmarkt, Leipzig, Germany.
Maker: Carl Seffner. Established in November 1918, by the Leoniden art-group. The text reads: Dem andenken zweier Leipziger Dichter, die in heiterem Wort und vertrautem Klang ihrer Heimatliebe ein köstlich Denkmal setzten widmen diese schlichte Tafel in schwerer Zeit die Leoniden (s. u.).
Bötticher is in good company; his friend en fellow-poet Edwin Bormann (1851-1912).
Photo: © Albert Hagenaars. 16 July 2011.
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ANNEKE SCHENK

Location: Corner Herenstraat/Turfkaai, Middelburg, The Netherlands. Established in 2010 as part of the project Sprekende Gevels (Speaking Gables).
Photo: © Albert Hagenaars. 26 November 2011.
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MAIRONIS / Jonas Mačiulis (1862-1932)

10 pictures


Location: SS Peter & Paul Cathedral, Vilniaus Gatvé 1, Kaunas, Lithuania.
Maker:
Photos: © Albert Hagenaars. 27 July 2011.
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Location: Rotušės Aikštė, Kaunas, Lithuania.
Maker: Jokūbonis Gediminas (1927—2006).
Photos: © Albert Hagenaars. 27 July 2011.
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Location: Maironis Lithuanian Literature Museum / Maironio Lietuvių Literatūros Muziejus, Rotušės Aikštė 13, Kaunas, Lithuania.
Photos: © Albert Hagenaars. 27 July 2011.
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Location: Maironis Lithuanian Literature Museum / Maironio Lietuvių Literatūros Muziejus, Rotušės Aikštė 13, Kaunas, Lithuania.
Photos: © Albert Hagenaars. 27 July 2011.
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MULTATULI / Eduard Douwes Dekker (1820-1887)

6 pictures


Location: Torensluis, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Maker: Hans Bayens. Established in 1987.
Photos: © Albert Hagenaars. 12 November 2011.
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Location: Galerie Amandus, Molstraat 8, Bergen op Zoom, The Netherlands.
Maker:
Photo: © Albert Hagenaars. 25 September 2010.
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Location: Torensluis (Singel), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Maker: Hans Bayens. Established in 1987.
Slide: © Hans Mellendijk.
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CHRISTIAN FÜRCHTEGOTT GELLERT (1715-1769)

Location: Lenneanlage, Leipzig, Germany.
Maker:
Photos: © Albert Hagenaars. 14 July 2011.
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KILIANUS / Cornelis van Kiel (ca 1529-1607)

Location: Museum Plantin Moretus, Antwerp, Flanders.
Maker:
Photo: © Bert Bevers. 2 October 2011.

GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS (ca 84 - ca 54)

Location: Piazza Corducci, Sirmione, Italy.
Maker:
Photo: © Hans Mellendijk. Summer 2011.
On the picture also Mrs. Rini Mellendijk-Scholten.

THEODOR KÖRNER (1791-1813)

Location: Schwanenteich, Leipzig, Germany.
Maker:
Photo: © Sitiwahyuningsih Hagenaars. 16 July 2011.

JEAN DE LA FONTAINE (1621-1695)

7 pictures


Location: Avenue Jules Lefebvre, Château-Thierry, France.
Maker:
Photos: © Albert Hagenaars. 6 March 2011.






Location: Musée Jean de la Fontaine, Rue Jean de la Fontaine 12, Château-Thierry, France.
Maker:
Photo: © Ron Scherpenisse. 3 August 2011.


Location: Rue Jean de la Fontaine 12, Château-Thierry, France.
Maker:
Photo: © Ron Scherpenisse. 3 August 2011.


Location: Rue Jean de la Fontaine 12, Château-Thierry, France.
Photo: © Ron Scherpenisse. 3 August 2011.


Location: Graveyard Père Lachaise, Paris.
Photo: © Albert Hagenaars. 25 October 2010.

FRANCIS JAMMES (1868-1938)

Location: Jardin des Poètes, Paris, France.
Maker:
Photo: © Albert Hagenaars. 5 June 2011.
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JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE (1749-1832)

6 pictures


Location: Naschmarkt, Leipzig, Germany.
Maker: Carl Seffner, 1903.
Photos: © Albert Hagenaars. 16 July 2011.






Location: Opernring-Goethegasse, Vienna, Austria.
Maker: Eduard Hellmer, 1895. Established by the Wiener Goethe Verein in 1900.
Photo: © Hans Mellendijk. August 2010.


Location: Villa Borghese, Rome, Italy.
Maker: Valentino Cagali. 1904.
Photo: © Albert Baggermans, 2000.
On the picture also Dutch poet Catharina Boer.

Everything flourishes here in vigour and health, the sun is bright and hot, and one can believe again in a God. ... when, immediately after sunset, the loud shrill of crickets is heard, I feel at home in the world, neither a stranger nor an exile. I enjoy everything as if I had been born and bred here and had just returned from a whaling expedition to Greenland.
‘Italian Journey’, 11 September 1786.


Location: Theaterplatz, Weimar, Germany.
Goethe left, Schiller right.
Maker: Ernst Rietschel. 1857.
Photo: © Albert Hagenaars, 2009.
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JACOB CATS (1577-1660)

8 pictures


Location: (this copy in bronze) Market Square, Brouwershaven, The Netherlands.
Maker: Philippe Parmentier (1787-1851) is the maker of the original statue in stone, established in 1829, (to be found in St.-Nicholas Church in Brouwershaven).
Photos: © Iman Padmos. 20 September 2011. Iman_Padmos@hotmail.com






Location of the birth place of the poet: Brouwershaven, The Netherlands.
Maker:
Photos: © Iman Padmos. 20 September 2011.




Location: Lange Noordstraat 31, Middelburg, The Netherlands.
This is the address where Jacob Cats lived in the period 1603-1623 and where he started his literary career.
Photos: © Albert Hagenaars. 26 November 2011.
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