Text: Ko van Geemert

Published in the Ñapa of March 21, 2020

” G.J. van der Veen has not been in art for long. Only six years ago he left engineering for sculpturing, to which he had always been attracted. That he could finally plunge into the beloved world of art was caused by the following fact, that one can rightly be called a heroic fact. ” This is what De Telegraaf reports on 1 October 1935.