12 Dec 2009: Three Flower Girls & One Landscape Lad
Preview was to see at the Open Art Fair. Now the full exhibition. On the opening night we will celebrate our blessings in 2009 and specially of Elizabeth Kleinveld and Mariska Meijers who both accomplished their goals!
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17 Nov 2009: Happy Dutch Painters Collection 2010
Arps&Co prepares the Happy Dutch painters Collection 2010. Affordable high quality.
1st choice: Ramon Jan Vet
His work is picked up in the art collection of the Literary Museum, the Stedelijk Museum, Nedlloyd BOVAG, artcentre Zaandam, SBK Amsterdam. Prices run from 300 till 1500 euro.
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08 Oct 2009: KEES TABAK Double Portraits
Famous Dutch Pop photographer challenges himself to make a selection of the double portraits he made of well known Dutch.The show will be on at Dikker& Thijs from 8.10 till 8.12 2009
Opening hours from 6 till 10 p.m. Right in the center of Amsterdam. Prinsengracht 438!
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01 Oct 2009: network network network
Arpsgallery just opened a linked group to network fine art professionals and collectors.The purpose is to bring artists and collectors together in meetings, workshops, exhibitions and groupshows. We aim at a safe business surrounding and enable all parties to develop their marketing and collectors information.
The group is based on an international art-exchange in various galleries connected with gallery arps&co. We stretch to keep contemporary art on reasonable prices with good payment conditions if needed to help people to build up a nice art collection.

Collectors interested in a piece, you will be surprised by the policy: We offer a 30-day refund policy and a 5-year exchange plan. Our lay away plan is very generous. The down payment is 10% and you have nine months to complete the balance without any finance charges. We accept Visa, Master Card, American Express, Discover, PayPal and personal checks.
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20 Feb 2008: It Ain't Necessarely So at the Gallery, Prinsengracht 444
Photography Elizabeth Kleinveld Poetry Rogi Wieg

Vernissage from 6 till 8 p.m. at the Dikker&Thijs Gallery, Prinsengracht 438

The exhibition, 'It Ain't Necessarily So,' is a synthesis of Rogi Wieg's poetry and Elizabeth Kleinveld's photography, which together tell the story of the transformative effect of having to rebuild anew. An artist's journey through the wake of Hurricane Katrina, as she searched to find meaning in the seemingly meaninglessness and move on. On the other side of the destruction, her quest to breathe color and "joie de vivre" back into her life took root, and so the series Bloemen was born. 'It Ain't Necessarily So' means that it could have been different, but it wasn't, because the above described mechanism is as old as the world. It is an endless varying rebirth.
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06 Oct 2007: Jacqueline Dersjant show in Dikker&Thijs Fenice
This second show in the serial To Be Continued - 2 opens on Saturday 6th. Friends are welcomed between 5 and 7 p.m. at the reception with the artist!
Adress: Dikker&Thijs Fenice Hotel, Prinsengracht 438.
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02 Oct 2007: FRANCO FONTANA 1987 - 2007 POLAROIDS
New Polaroids arrived!
Photography, writing with light is certainly still magic, one click leads through mysterious cemistry to develop and realize an image. But Fontana doesn't restrict himself to just the image, he transforms it to something else, probably curious about other people's life, about moments that are never his, panorama's presumable real but felt differently, dreams that were dreamt by other people somewhere one has not been. Like Elias Canetti wrote what could be the motive of every artist: "Nobody resists without a borrowed life, our own is not enough".
There are landscapes in the mind that surpass those that casually could happen in front of our eyes and they are superior. They are made of so many of those things that we do not even know where and when and how: a book we read, or a song, the memory of a person or the wish to forget, an instant moment or a long run of years, Fontana, with his brilliant simplicity (apparent simplicity, as matters from the mind and from the heart appear in a complicate way) registers this and meanwhile gives space by suggesting to enable us to fill in with our own memories.from our times, with all our own fantasmagoria as everyone of us makes.
Francesco Guccini
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15 Jun 2007: Festival Who was Ele d'Artagnan big success!!
Over thousands of visitors in 4 days.
The catwalk and fotoshoot - show pictures are made by the professional photographer Diana Snabilie, look for more information on her company site www.circleoflife.nu She is the best choice!
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20 Feb 2007: An extreme cup of tea
Lee Kyu Hyung is a professor in 'Ceramic Studies' . His continuous search for new glazes has made him one of the most versatile Korean ceramic artists. Apart from ceramic paintings and sculptures he has designed ingenious sets for the drinking of pu erh tea in Chinese style and other tea utensils. He has exhibited his work in Korea, Japan, China, the USA, New Zealand, Mongolia, Uzbekistan and Egypt and Arps&Co at Amsterdam.
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03 Oct 2006: Vernissages 2006/2007: vernissage Robert Rizzo
at the Dikker&Thijs Fenice Hotel, Prinsengracht 444, Amsterdam. On Show till November 12th.
All photographes are taken by Diana Snabilie.
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20 Aug 2006: History Arps & Co
Bernardus Arps ( 1813-1896) was typesetter,printer, founder of Arps&Son Printers, Royal Purveyers in Rottterdam. He started in 1860 in Culemborg, the next step was to move to Rotterdam in 1871 to the Great Market Square.
Typsesetter was a very humble profession at the time. The beginning of the profession he learned in Haarlem at the famous Johan Enschede & Sons Printers company.
The fascinating fact is that he had developped his own learning process as a co-working trainee, at first in Bruxelles and later in Paris. That were Christian bookprinters. There is a European workpermit from this episode with his name and accompanied with an invitation letter from the printer in Paris stating he should come to France and work with them, on the condition that he would be a good and Christian young man. Already in those days there was a political hesitation in allowing working class people travel to other countries, as they might lose their job and decay to begging and would need the social care of the hosting country. (one can notice that there is not much changed in the last two centuries).
Bernardus 1 married at the age of 22 with Elisabeth Zweeres (28)and first settled in Haarlem.Their only son, also named Bernardus (2) was born in 1836. He married with Catherina Pardij. See:
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernardus_Arps
My great grand parents got 7 children.They all lived in Rotterdam.
My grandfather William Arps started an Art-Gallery, annex Printers in the Nobelstraat 4 in The Hague togehter with his sister, Jet Arps. The grand opening was in 9 november 1902. This was the reason to name the gallery Arps&Co.They also became Royal Purveyers.
Jet Arps was a talented painter and designer. She finished the Royal Academy of Arts in 1900, she never married.The artgallery brought many equisit articles on the market, and also the oil-paintings of their famous brother Bernardus Arps (3), member of the Dutch School. Bernardus Arps has studied at the Academy of Rotterdam, where he was assigned a silver medal for drawing. Later he studied in Delft, with the master A.le Comte. After a long working period as a typesetter at his fathers printíng company, he left the city of Rotterdam to live in Arnhem in 1893 where he stayed till 1898. Het lived 15 years in The Hague. He became a member of the Pulchri Studio.
My grandfather married in 1910 at the age of 31 with Frederica Hoekstra.(24), a referend’s daughter from Friesland who had gone through a terrible period of loosing both her parents and three brothers.

The gallery Arps&Co offered them an extreme interesting period of life, in the middle of the The Haugue establishment. Though financially they didn’t do very well in the crisis episode (the 30th) and 3 of their children went to the Indies to try to earn their own living, none of them comming back from the second world war. That is how my father took over the Arpsgallery in 1953, by that time changed into a stationary shop, annex printer, still Royal Purveyers.
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