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Huis architect Joan van der Mey

Hulsenerstraat 1
Geulle (aan de Maas)
Architecture: House architect Joan van der Mey (Snijdersberg), founder of the Amsterdam School.

Joan Melchior van der Meij is seen as the founder of 'The Amsterdam School', an expressionist architectural movement from the early twentieth century. The Scheepvaarthuis in Amsterdam that Van der Meij designed in 1912 is internationally known as the first building in this expressionist style. Van der Meij, who comes from the Rijnmond region, settled in Geulle in 1910, after traveling through Europe with his wife for four years as a multiple winner of the Prix de Rome. He bought a three-hundred-year-old farm that he converted into a studio home on the Snijdersberg, four hours by train from his work in Amsterdam.

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