{"id":192,"date":"2025-04-24T13:44:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T11:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tstvroman.carnevore.nl\/blog\/?p=188"},"modified":"2025-05-25T12:39:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T12:39:16","slug":"2015-beeld-leo-vroman-van-jeroen-henneman-onthuld-op-de-chocoladefabriek-in-gouda-geboorteplaats-van-leo-vroman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vromanfoundation.com\/en\/project-nl\/2015-beeld-leo-vroman-van-jeroen-henneman-onthuld-op-de-chocoladefabriek-in-gouda-geboorteplaats-van-leo-vroman\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 \u2013 Sculpture of Leo Vroman unveiled on the roof of the Chocoladefabriek building in Gouda, Leo\u2019s birthplace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" data-id=\"115\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vromanfoundation.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20150407_161635.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-115\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vromanfoundation.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20150407_161635.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.vromanfoundation.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20150407_161635-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" data-id=\"116\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vromanfoundation.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Leobij-avondzon.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-116\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vromanfoundation.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Leobij-avondzon.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.vromanfoundation.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Leobij-avondzon-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nl.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jeroen_Henneman\">Jeroen Henneman<\/a> created a very accomplished portrait, a \u201cstanding sketch\u201d (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 said to the proponents \u201cI don\u2019t know if I\u2019ll make it to 100 but celebrate it anyway\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sculpture was realised by contractors, Gouda city Council and the Vroman Foundation, who gave their complete support to the two promotors in order to complete the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To celebrate the sculpture\u2019s unveiling both of the Vroman daughters, Geri and Peggy, grandchildren, other family members, friends and many others were invited to the Chocoladefabriek in Gouda. This is home to the library, a local central holland archive, the printer\u2019s workshop and caf\u00e9 Kruim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vroman night was organised at the same time with multiple artists and performances by the city\u2019s poets. Information about Vroman can be found in two places in the Vroman Park that lies in front of the Chocoladefabriek: on the transformer housing a short distance from the main building and on a plaque on the wall under the sculpture. The park was designed by <a href=\"https:\/\/nl.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jan_David_Zocher\">Jan David Zocher jr.<\/a> and was renamed the Leo Vroman Park especially for this unveiling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeroen Henneman created a very accomplished portrait, a \u201cstanding sketch\u201d (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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-nl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vromanfoundation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vromanfoundation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vromanfoundation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vromanfoundation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vromanfoundation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vromanfoundation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323,"href":"https:\/\/www.vromanfoundation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vromanfoundation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vromanfoundation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vromanfoundation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}