Willy Kessels, Projekt Linkeroever, Antwerpen
Willy Kessels
Dendermode 1898 - 1974 Brussels
Projekt Linkeroever, Antwerpen
1926
Vintage gelatin silver print. 9.6 x 30.4 cm. Signed and titled in ink as well as annotated in an unknown hand in pencil on the verso.
Shortly after his appointment as professor at the University of Ghent in 1925, Henry Van de Velde was commissioned to develop an urban design for a representative residential and commercial development on the left bank of the Scheldt in Antwerp. This project, of which only a few perspectives are preserved, was part of an extensive urban expansion concept that included a tunnel for traffic under the river Scheldt. Kessels visualised Van de Velde’s design in this collage, in which he combined a group of people in the foreground with a perspective drawing by the architect in the background.
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Willy Kessels
Dendermode 1898 - 1974 Brussels
Projekt Linkeroever, Antwerpen
1926
Vintage gelatin silver print. 9.6 x 30.4 cm. Signed and titled in ink as well as annotated in an unknown hand in pencil on the verso.
Shortly after his appointment as professor at the University of Ghent in 1925, Henry Van de Velde was commissioned to develop an urban design for a representative residential and commercial development on the left bank of the Scheldt in Antwerp. This project, of which only a few perspectives are preserved, was part of an extensive urban expansion concept that included a tunnel for traffic under the river Scheldt. Kessels visualised Van de Velde’s design in this collage, in which he combined a group of people in the foreground with a perspective drawing by the architect in the background.
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