<span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:small;">Gerrit Rietveld made this highchair for the young Hendrikus Johannes Witteveen, later Dutch finance minister and IMF chairman. In 2006, this example was discovered among the possessions of a family that had lived in Zeist in the 1920s. One other example of this design was featured in De Stijl magazine and later lost. It was Rietveld's first design be promoted by De Stijl, as well as the first piece of furniture in the magazine. [text 2023]</span><br><span style="font-size:12px;"><br></span>
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Gerrit Rietveld made this highchair for the young Hendrikus Johannes Witteveen, later Dutch finance minister and IMF chairman. In 2006, this example was discovered among the possessions of a family that had lived in Zeist in the 1920s. One other example of this design was featured in De Stijl magazine and later lost. It was Rietveld's first design be promoted by De Stijl, as well as the first piece of furniture in the magazine. [text 2023]
aankoop met Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, met steun van de Mondriaan Stichting, Vereniging Rembrandt, 2008 (gezamenlijke aankoop met Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, met steun van de Mondriaan Stichting, Vereniging Rembrandt)
Dimensions
hoogte 123 cm
breedte 44 cm
diepte 55.5 cm
Remarks
Gezamelijke aankoop met Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, met steun van de Mondriaan Stichting, Vereniging Rembrandt, mede dankzij het Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds en KF Hein Fonds.
Documentation
Aanwinsten : Over museale aankopen mede mogelijk gemaakt met de incidentele aankoopregeling van het Mondriaan Fonds, Tekst: Edo Dijksterhuis, Birgit Donker, Anna van Leeuwen ... [et al.], (Amsterdam, 2016), p. 124, met afb. in kleur
De Stijl 100 jaar inspiratie : De Nieuwe Beelding en de internationale kunst 1917-2017, Anton Anthonissen, Evert van Straaten, (Zwolle, 2016), p. 285, met afb. in kleur
De Stijl 1917-1931, dir. d'ouvrage Frédéric Migayrou ; avec la coll. d'Aurélein Lemonier, (Paris, 2010), p. 227
