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Michel de Klerk

1884 - 1923

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Michel de Klerk (24 November 1884, Amsterdam – 24 November 1923, Amsterdam) was a Dutch architect. Born to a Jewish family, he was one of the founding architects of the movement Amsterdam School (Expressionist architecture) Early in his career he worked for other architects, including Eduard Cuypers. For a while, he also employed the Indonesian-born Liem Bwan Tjie, who would later become his country's pioneering proponent of the Amsterdam School and modern architecture. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michel de Klerk has received more than 74,317 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Michel de Klerk is the 398th most popular architect (down from 362nd in 2019), the 701st most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 604th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Dutch Architect.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Michel de Klerk ranks 398 out of 518. Before him are Kunio Maekawa, Walter Burley Griffin, Giuseppe Piermarini, Hermann Bollé, Juan Gómez de Mora, and John Hejduk. After him are Andrey Voronikhin, Arnold Bode, Baron Karl von Hasenauer, Denise Scott Brown, Vasily Bazhenov, and Victor Louis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Michel de Klerk ranks 169. Before him are Bohumil Kubišta, Claes Johanson, Vasily Agapkin, Dewi Sartika, Sig Ruman, and Carl Holmberg. After him are Molla Mallory, John Hutchinson, York Bowen, Ali Aaltonen, Nora Barnacle, and Rodney Heath. Among people deceased in 1923, Michel de Klerk ranks 87. Before him are Guy de la Chapelle, Ōsugi Sakae, Tommaso Salvadori, Ernst Hartwig, Vatslav Vorovsky, and Georg von Rosen. After him are Wilhelm Killing, Tomás Bretón, Stefanos Dragoumis, Hans Goldschmidt, Eugen Huber, and Tage Reedtz-Thott.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Michel de Klerk ranks 701 out of 1,646. Before him are Constant Nieuwenhuys (1920), Jacob Maris (1837), Jan Lammers (1956), Leonardus Nardus (1868), Antonius van den Broek (1870), and Dries van der Lof (1919). After him are Joep Lange (1954), Job Cohen (1947), Hendrik Voogd (1768), Eddy Treijtel (1946), Albert Kluyver (1888), and Alexander Rueb (1882).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Netherlands

Among architects born in Netherlands, Michel de Klerk ranks 15. Before him are Salomon de Bray (1597), Pierre Cuypers (1827), Willem Marinus Dudok (1884), Tylman van Gameren (1632), Jan Wils (1891), and Jaap Bakema (1914).

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