‘Die Vorliebe der Niederländer für helle, freundliche Zimmer’. Oldenburgs stucwerk in Nederland tussen 1775 en 1925

‘Dutchmen like light, representative interiors’, according to several Germans in the nineteenth century. They referred to the taste in living of above-average citizens. Evidently, there was a preference for white, sometimes also for bright colours. In the period 1775-1925 more than a thousand Oldenburg plasterers earned a living from the taste of Dutch citizens. The farmer’s son J.B. Logeman (1748-1814) from Oldenburg was the first. In Amsterdam he learned the plasterer’s craft and was quite successful in the Northern Netherlands and Germany. This inspired people from the same regions. What th... Mehr ...