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 Princess Juliana (1909-2004), Queen between 1948 and 1980, led a withdrawn life in her final years.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… Read more: Leo Vroman in article the Volkskrant

The third Jan van Eyck Academy Vroman Fellow Maud van den Beuken presented Carry the River, the first moment of her project Where the River is. She started her fellowship in June 2022. From the 2025 event Carry the River part of the project Where the River is, done in collaboration with TENT Rotterdam. Photo by Ali Haji

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… Read more: Vroman bench 2024

The new work of art, made by artist Henrique van Putten, was unveiled yesterday in the presence of the alderman for culture in Gouda, Thierry van Vugt, people from the ‘Groen Alliantie’ and Noelle Gracy and her son Liam, on behalf of the Vroman Foundation. Due to the covid-19 measures the invited audience was small,… Read more: Art work ‘Saying hi and Goodbye’ unveiled 27 May 2021

The Vroman Foundation and the BBV Protestant churches of Naaldwijk organised this exhibition in the Naaldwijk Oude Kerk (Wilhelminaplein 5) April 14-May 4 2021: CloserToVroman TeDrawings, photographs and poems form the essence of the exhibition in this unusual setting. The iconic poem “Peace” gets its own image in the exhibition. Video and film clips are… Read more: Closer to Vroman – exhibition in the Naaldwijk Oude Kerk, extended to 20 May 2021

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… Read more: 2020-2021 – Saying Hi and Goodbye, the population of Gouda decides

Vroman Foundation members Janny Rodermond and Jetske Spanjer travelled to Maastricht in March to meet the new fellow (David) and the director of the van Eyck, Hicham Khalid. David is working hard on his project on lichen and starts his fellowship in June. for more about David Habets and the Vroman Fellowship: https://www.janvaneyck.nl/participants/david-habets

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… Read more: 2020 Remembrance Day

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… Read more: 2019-2020 – Planning the ultimate biography of poet and scientist Leo Vroman

In partnership with the Natural History Museum in Rotterdam, the Vroman Foundation presents the exhibition Warm, Red, Wet and Sweet, Leo Vroman’s Blood. The visitors will be introduced to his warm personality, his fascination for the red fluid, his curiosity for all living things and his love for Tineke, his wife. His prison camp diary… Read more: 2018-2019 – Warm, Red, Wet and Sweet, Leo Vroman’s Blood (10 November 2018 – 5 May 2019)

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… Read more: 2018 – November, plaque unveiled on Leo and Tineke Vroman’s ‘love seat’ bench in Utrecht

The young Russian artist Ilya Fedotov-Fedorov has been selected as the first Vroman Fellow by the Vroman Foundation and the Van Eyck. Fedotov-Fedorov will start his six-month work period at the Jan van Eyck Academie –part of the Van Eyck– in April 2018 and will develop new work at the intersection of art and science.… Read more: 2018 – April – First Vroman Fellowship in co-operation with the Jan van Eyck Academy Maastricht

Leon van der Sanden has made an impressive performance of the irresisteble love story of Leo and Tineke in Mirjam van Hengel’s book ‘Hoe Mooi Alles’. The leads are Kees Hulst en Esther Scheldwacht. De premier of the show was on 25 september 2015 in the presence of members of the family, author Mirjam van… Read more: 2015-2017 – ‘Hoe Mooi Alles’ transformed for the theatre, tours Dutch Theatres

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… Read more: 2015-2016 ‘Leo Vroman the Artist’ is reprised

Jeroen Henneman created a very accomplished portrait, a “standing sketch” (as Henneman calls it) of scientist/poet Leo Vroman in curved steel commissioned by the City of Gouda. On 10 April 2015 Leo Vroman who was born in Gouda would have been 100 years old. Even though he doubted that he would reach that age he… Read more: 2015 – Sculpture of Leo Vroman unveiled on the roof of the Chocoladefabriek building in Gouda, Leo’s birthplace

Mirjiam van Hengel, Leo Vroman’s editor at Querido and former president of the Vroman Foundation wrote ‘How Lovely it All Is. Leo and Tineke Vroman, love during wartime’. The book was published on 10 April 2014, Leo Vroman’s 99th birthday shortly after his death on 22 February of the same year. Mirjam van Hengel captured… Read more: 2015 – How Lovely it All Is

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… Read more: 2010 Exhibition at Weesperzijde and publication of Leo Vroman Artist

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… Read more: Sometimes love lasts forever – a documentary about Leo and Tineke Vroman by Yke Bertels