Dirk Brouwer (architect), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Dirk Brouwer (architect)

Dutch architect and partisan

Date of Birth: 23-Nov-1899

Place of Birth: Alkmaar, North Holland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 17-Nov-1941

Profession: architect, resistance fighter

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Dirk Brouwer (architect)

  • Dirk Brouwer (1899 in Alkmaar – 1941 in Overveen) was a Dutch architect.
  • His father was a concierge at a local technical school. After three years of studies Dirk Brouwer learned from various architects and attended a course for Higher Architectural Education in Amsterdam. His buildings were designed according to the Amsterdam School and he cooperated with Willem Marinus Dudok, a notable assertor of Modernism, thus Brouwer's style was influenced.
  • In 1938 he designed the backside and possibly also the dome light of the Bijenkorf department store in Amsterdam.
  • He also built the HEMA store in Heerlen. In World War II he joined the resistance and the editors of the illegal magazine Vrij Nederland.
  • He was therefore executed by German troops in the dunes near Overveen in 1941.

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