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Exhibition: Wageningen University & Research in Cartoons, 3 April - 1 June 2017
The library is organising this exhibition of cartoons to show the richness of the academic
heritage of Wageningen University & Research in the run up to the 100th anniversary of
Wageningen University in 2018. The history of Wageningen University & Research shows that
science and art has come together, not least in the form of specially made cartoons. This
exhibition gives you the opportunity to see a wide range of unique cartoons drawn by artists
commissioned by Wageningen University & Research.
Louis Raemaekers (1869-1956) was a cartoonist who became notoriously world famous
with political cartoons during the First World War. Around 1900 he was an art teacher at the
State Agricultural School that in 1918 became Wageningen University. In Wageningen he
made caricatures of teachers and other personnel in a portfolio called ‘Schetsboek van Pietje’.
He also made drawings for some of the colour plates in Ritzema Bos’s books. Later on
Raemaekers would become arguably the most important person commenting on the brutal
conflict of the First World War in neutral Holland. He even helped to change the course of the
war, armed only with a pen and pencil. The Times hailed him as ‘the one private individual
who exercised a real and great influence on the course of the 1914-18 War’. Raemaekers’
cartoons vividly brought the horrors of war to the attention of the general public throughout
the world. ‘Louis Raemaekers was instrumental in bringing the U.S. into the war, featuring the
horrors, massacres and excesses, the suffering of small nations’, says Anita O'Brien, director
and head curator of London’s Cartoon Museum. You can leave through his biography by
Arianne de Ranitz to see more of his work including his fierce anti-war cartoons.
Another famous artist active here was Fiep Westendorp (1916-2004) working in the
second half of the 20th century. Everyone growing up in the Netherlands knows the children’s
books Jip and Janneke illustrated by Fiep Westendorp (196-2004), and her cartoon cats Pim &
Pom who feature in a current musical. Westendorp was asked by the Wageningen Institute for
Horticultural Technology (I.T.T.) to make drawings for a short instructional film on how to
work more efficiently and ergonomically in the ornamental horticulture business. The I.T.T. –
now Wageningen Plant Research - had done a study for best practices in working methods
commissioned by the Dutch Association of Floriculture. Since a booklet was published in 1965
with a someone else’s illustrations, we don’t know for sure if Westendorp’s drawings were ever
used for the film that was made. The exhibition displays all the 22 original drawings she made
for it, as part of the celebration of Fiep’s 100th year of birth this year as well.
The last section of the exhibition displays cartoons that were made around the turn of
the 20th century. Some cartoons were made by Loet van Moll for the library to illustrate a
course on information literacy. Loet van Moll and Henk van Ruitenbeek drew many cartoons
for the magazines of Wageningen University and Research, namely Resource and its
predecessors. These cartoons were made mainly to make fun of different aspects of the
academic organisation in particular and the challenges of science in general.
Enjoy our exhibition in the spirit of the 100th year anniversary theme ‘Wageningen Wisdom &
Wonder’!
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Venue: Wageningen University & Research – Library, Special Collections
Forum (Building 102) | Droevendaalsesteeg 2 | 6708 PB Wageningen
www.wur.eu/library/special-collections | Tel. (0317) – 48 27 01 | speccoll.library@wur/nl
Open: Monday – Friday, 9.00 am – 1.00 pm (afternoon by appointment)
Tek.no. | Name | Profession around 1900 (working period) /© L. Raemaekers
1.01
Dam, J. van
Teacher in Mathematics, and Physics;
Director of the Agricultural School
(1896-?)
1.02
Slothouwer
Director of the State Secondary
School [RHBS] (?-?)
1.03
Cattie, J.Th.
RHBS-Teacher in Biology; Director of
the State Horticultural School (1895?1906)
1.04
Cozijn, [M.A.]
Rabbi; Library assistant (?-1912?)
1.05
Haarst, J. van
Agricultural assistant (?-?)
1.06
Koning, P.
(Company) Farmer (?-?)
1.07
Koenen, S.
Teacher in State & Agricultural
Economics (1905-1922)
1.08
Bijlert, A. van
Teacher in Lowland cultures (19031925)
1.09 Aberson, J.H.
Teacher in Agricultural chemistry
(1886-1928)
1.10
1.11
Jurling, J.
Teacher in Mathematics, and Geodesy
(?-?)
Raemaekers, L.
Art Teacher at the State Agricultural
School (1896-1912)
2.01 Broekema, L.
Teacher in Livestock and Dairy (18771921)
2.02 Berkhout, A.H.
Teacher in Indonesian Highland
cultures (1892-1920)
2.03 Reilingh Dzn, W.
Teacher in State economics; Civiel
law; Indonesian constitutional law
and Forestry law (1877-1913)
2.04 Lako, S.
Teacher in Agricultural mechanics and
Accounting [Bee keeper] (1878-1918)
2.05 Mayer, A.
Teacher in Agricultural Chemistry and
Technology (1876-1903)
2.06 Giltay, E.
Teacher in Plant sciences (18851922)
2.07 Reimers, H.C.
Teacher in Anatomy and physiology of
farm animals(1879-1922)
2.08 Schermbeek, A.J. van
Teacher in Forestry (1899-1915)
2.09 Ritzema Bos, J.
Teacher in Plant and animal sciences,
later Plant Pathology; Director of the
Plant Pathology Service (1873-1920)
2.10 Pitsch, J.O.F.
Teacher in Agriculture; Agricultural
crop production (1873-1918)
2.11 Stricker, J. P.
Head Administration Officer (18811920)