Digital Collections

3 items

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  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.
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  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.
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  Record cabinet

  A virtual 3D reconstruction of the record cabinet in which Pierre Kemp kept his records, some of which directly inspired his poetry.