Pierre Kemp

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Title
Pierre Kemp
Description
One of the most fascinating individuals in twentieth-century Dutch poetry is Maastricht-born Pierre Kemp (1886-1967). In 1956, he received the Constantijn Huygens Prize, followed in 1958 by the PC Hooft Prize. Maastricht University Library manages a large part of his personal estate. The Pierre Kemp Collection contains various objects, such as books (his private library), letters, manuscripts, radio fragments, graphic works, a Liber Amicorum (a handwritten friendship book including graphic works by renowned artists), vinyl records, a red egg decorated with a poem in gold ink, a desk, and a record collection. Part of this collection is housed in the library by the Pierre Kemp Foundation, which aims to bring Kemp's literary and graphic heritage to the attention of a wide audience. As part of the national Connected Digital Heritage program, the University Library aims to present the Pierre Kemp Collection to as broad an audience as possible in a connected, open, and enriched way.

The Pierre Kemp collection is made available in several ways (CC-BY license):
• to people via this website;
• as Linked Open Data in machine-readable JSON-LD format or SPARQL endpoint;
• as a dataset registration in the NDE dataset registry.
Sub-Collection
Letters Pierre Kemp
Manuscripts Pierre Kemp
Choreographic fantasies - Revuetaferelen Pierre Kemp
Is part of
Literature and Art
Identifier
ark:/27364/d18jZzz

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  • Ei voor Turkoois thumbnail
    Egg for Turquoise - Ei voor Turkoois
    A virtual 3D reconstruction of an artificial red coloured Easter egg decorated with a poem in gold ink by Pierre Kemp for his muse Turkoois, the name he gave to a 21-year old jurist he had met on the train on April 15, 1942 Transcribed text in Dutch: Dit ei is rood van vreugde dat ’t nooit advocaat kan worden en niet die struif en gin bevat als ’t schrikbewind der Orde en geen nieuw leven door een broed aan schrikbewindje geven moet.
  • Oak office desk
    A virtual 3D reconstruction of one of the oak office desks at which Pierre Kemp wrote his poems in his house in the Turennestraat 21 in Maastricht, where he lived from 1929 until his death in 1967.
  • Record cabinet
    A virtual 3D reconstruction of the record cabinet in which Pierre Kemp kept his records, some of which directly inspired his poetry.