Lucy Steen van der Schuit

ANTIQUE BIBLES

My eldest brother Johan is a restorer of centuries-old antique bibles. When he was 14 years old he started 'working & learning' as a typesetter at De Spaarnestad, Haarlem. After a number of years he also learnt to be a bookbinder. Then started his own business with a qualified staff and heavy Heidelberg machinery. Now he restores antique bibles (including the copper locks) and artbooks. Sometimes, when the cover of an artbook is damaged he brings it to me to restore it.

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HERMITAGE AMSTERDAM BREAKS TIES WITH HERMITAGE ST. PETERSBURG

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ST. BAVO CHURCH LIT IN YELLOW & BLUE

Yesterday I found * photos of our decesed Haarlem-city-organist Piet Kee (et moi) who played so wonderful (as Mozart did too) the famous Müller organ in the St. Bavo church, Haarlem.

* Also V.'s little, funny drawings which show himself playing an organ in the 90ies. Piet wrote a message to V. in my Little Brown Book, years ago.

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22-2-22 REMBRANDT HUIS

A pity that Eric does not make there etchings any more in exactly the same way as Rembrandt did. We missed you, Eric!

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MALEVITSJ'S 'BLACK SQUARE' HERMITAGE AMSTERDAM

After two Covid-fearfull-years a visit to (a strangely quiet) Avant Garde-exhibition.

Malevitsj's (born in Kiev, Ukraine) 'Black Square'- painting now in Amsterdam, February 2022. A bad sign?

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PREPARING A VISIT AFTER 2 YEARS

Study 'Malevitsj' to prepare a visit to the Hermitage Amsterdam.

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ENCAUSTIC 2-2-'22

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STANDING ALONE ON THE BIGGEST LOCK OF THE WORLD

'De Grote Zeesluis', the biggest lock in the world (500 meters long, 70 meters wide and 18 meters deep) shall be inaugurated to-morrow by our king Willem Alexander, who is a watermanager,  in our township. Because no visitors are allowed (because of covid) on the 26th of January 2022, I visited this huge project on my bike. Standing completely alone on the lock (there were only a few people in the distance) was só fascinating. My poem is still exhibited on a window in the SHIP (Lock-) museum, which was closed now, also because of covid.

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R.I.P. THÍCH NHAT HANH, THAY

On the 29th April of 2009, Anne and I attended his lecture in the Prins Willem Alexanderzaal of Congrescentrum Worldforum The Hague. 'Know that life can only be found in the present moment'.

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THE FLOOD OF 1825 PAINTED ON THE DIAL-PLATE

The storm surge (wetterfloed 1825) in Fryslân, a drôvich Fryske skiednis, is painted on this dial-plate? If so, it makes this restoration even more special.

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