Dirk Roosenburg was a Dutch architect and designer.
13 Facts About Dirk Roosenburg
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Dirk Roosenburg's father Dirk Leonard Roosenburg was a doctor, his mother Selinde came from the entrepreneurial family Fentener van Vlissingen.
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Dirk Roosenburg was the couple's third son and had a total of four brothers and two sisters.
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Dirk Roosenburg grew up in The Hague and attended the Hogereburgschool, where he showed good performance in geometry and drawing.
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Dirk Roosenburg then spent another year at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
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Dirk Roosenburg settled in the studio of painter Arie Martinus Lugt on the Kerkhoflaan in The Hague.
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In 1919, the year that KLM was founded, Dirk Roosenburg designed the original KLM logo.
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When he was almost sixty, Dirk Roosenburg entered into a partnership with two employees: Verhave and Luyt, and later De Jong joined the firm as a partner.
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Dirk Roosenburg was the designer of the KLM head office, which was opened in his presence by Prince Bernhard.
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Architect Dirk Roosenburg, who designed the Philips head office in Eindhoven, was sometimes referred to as the house architect of KLM, Philips and Stork, and he was the designer of numerous projects for the national government.
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Dirk Roosenburg was a contemporary of Willem Dudok, Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud and Gerrit Rietveld.
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Dirk Roosenburg was the designer of the Stevin and Lorentz drainage sluices and the customs office of the Afsluitdijk, and of the Velser Tunnel.
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The couple had 6 children: Dirk Roosenburg Paris was born on 1912), Jan Govert was born on 1914), Jacob Martijn (b.