34 Community art

Actions to introduce the eight-hour working day included decorating the union hall of the ANDB. These premises, which symbolized the success of the union, were designed by H.P. Berlage (1856-1934, also the architect of the stock exchange in Amsterdam) and were completed in 1900. The murals were in the ‘community art’ style of Richard Holand Holst (1868-1938), whose designs included the front of the programme booklet from 1911. The ‘Burcht’ is in Amsterdam, on what is now the Henri Polaklaan.

Decoration of the front of the diamond workers’ union building
[Amsterdam]:ANDB, October 1911
Photograph, 12 x 18

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