Joop Beljon

[2] In Haarlem he dropped out to become a pupil of the sculptor Theo van Reijn, and of the painter, draftsman Floris de Groot.

[3] After the Nazi’s invaded, Beljon became part of a resistance group called onderduikers (the hidden).

Beljon went into hiding and attempted to interrupt Nazi activity by forging travel documents for the Dutch.

[5] Beljon was an environment artist and he worked extensively with architects on projects commissioned by the Government Buildings Agency, among others in The Hague, Arnhem, Apeldoorn, Nijmegen, Groningen and Utrecht.

Beljon was excited by Rodias spontaneous and intuitive process which he employed in creating the design for this wall.

[3] There is a detail in a niche of the wall of two interlocked rococo style hearts that are a motif in Rodia’s work Nuestro Pueblo.