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Willem van Genk’s crowded cities
Willem van Genk was an artist from The Hague who focussed on the 'dynamic chaos of the city', as Michiel Morel calls it: "crowded cities with impressive architecture and train stations filled with advertisements; threatening platforms with trains as monsters; meandering streets and squares with monumental cathedrals". (Shown here is Leningrad, 1955) Van Genk, who [...]