Category: News
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Leo Vroman in article the Volkskrant
21 maart 2024 / Nieuws Unknown Juliana poem by Leo Vroman discovered in the princess’s legacy She died today exactly twenty years ago, he has also been dead for ten years. Princess Juliana (1909-2004), Queen between 1948 and 1980, led a withdrawn life in her final years. The poet Leo Vroman (1915-2014) remained productive into…
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Vroman bench 2024
Dear Vroman family, Some of you may already be aware that the Leo ♥ Tineke bench just by the Utrecht Sterrenwacht building has disappeared. On October 7th of last year, I found an empty space on my daily walk through the Zocherpark. It had been neatly tidied, and the ground raked, so there was no…
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2020-2021 – Saying Hi and Goodbye, the population of Gouda decides
This was the headline in the Gouda Post newspaper on Wednesday 23 September 2020 in which the population of Gouda were asked to vote for two totally different artworks that were inspired by Leo Vroman’s poem Hallucinations: We are the appearings That fade so fast That we are disappearings Of nature The Central Holland Green…
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2020 Remembrance Day
Leo Vroman’s work was referred to many times during the recent war Remembrance Day on the 4th of May 2020 in the moving television programme ‘Na de Dam’, that the NPO broadcast after the National Remembrance Day ceremony from Dam Square in Amsterdam. If you missed it or would like to see it again it…
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2019-2020 – Planning the ultimate biography of poet and scientist Leo Vroman
The feasibility of writing a definitive biography of Leo Vroman’s life and work and that of his wife (Tineke) is being investigated. These works are managed and maintained for future generations by the Vroman Foundation. This is no simple task as the work is so broad. Obviously, Leo Vroman wrote a lot about himself, both…
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2018 – November, plaque unveiled on Leo and Tineke Vroman’s ‘love seat’ bench in Utrecht
Eighty years ago, in November, Leo Vroman kissed Georgine (Tineke) Sanders for the first time on a bench in the Zocherpark in Utrecht. A plaque was unveiled on a bench in this spot to commemorate this kiss. They both studied in Utrecht and got to know each other whilst still very young. Leo knew immediately…
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2015-2016 ‘Leo Vroman the Artist’ is reprised
Leo Vroman, poet, scientist and artist, celebrated his 95th birthday on 10 April 2010. To commemorate this occasion the majority of his visual work was shown for the first time at the Weesperzijde gallery in Amsterdam. This exhibition took place in April-May 2010. Leo Vroman is primarily recognised as a poet in the Netherlands. He…
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Sometimes love lasts forever – a documentary about Leo and Tineke Vroman by Yke Bertels
This beautiful 35 minute documentary by Ike Bertels from 2009 made for the TV series Profiel is still available online through NPO Start. The documentary was rebroadcast to celebrate Leo Vroman’s birthday (10 April 1915 – 22 February 2014). Love, Life and Death are the central themes of poets Leo and Tineke Vroman. Their unconditional…