Dutch Art + Architecture Today 02, 1977

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Content includes:
AD PETERSEN / PIETER MOL – Notes from an Interview
CAREL BLOTKAMP – The painter Daan van Golden,
ANTJE VON GRAEVENITZ – Herman Scholten; Désirée Scholten- van de Rivière,
WIM DE WIT – The new Wing of the Kröller-Müll Museum at Otterlo. A building by Wim G. Quist
PAUL HEFTING – Ad Dekkers. Two Walls in the Kröller-Müller Museum
MARION FRITZ- JOBSE – Peter Struycken’s colour programme for the Slatted Walls of the Auditorium of the Kröller-Müller Museum

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Dutch Art + Architecture Today 02, 1977. Designed by Jan van Toorn
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