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A memorial stone on the façade of the building next to the entrance of the Amsterdam Artis Zoo reminds the participants of the attack there and also mentions the name of Arondéus.

After being sentenced to death by a German court he was executed with the main participants on 1 July 1943 in Overveen.

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Carelessness among the participants led to a series of arrests Arondéus was arrested on April 1 at his hiding place. Johan Brouwer provided Arondéus, acting as a captain of the police, with a revolver. Nijhoff noted where explosives had to be placed in order to achieve the greatest possible effect, based on his experience as a former genius officer. The architect Koen Limperg had made maps of the building, the poet M. His share in the distribution of the ingeniously falsified identity cards that sculptor Gerrit Jan van der Veen and his staff produced, led to Arondéus and Van der Veen taking charge of the attack on the Amsterdam population register on 27 March 1943, meant to disable the checking of the falsified identity cards.

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In the spring of that year he started to write the Brandaris letter and distributed it among his art brothers whenever there was a new attack on the free art life from the side of the occupying forces. When in the course of 1941 his study on monumental painting in the Netherlands was published, Arondéus was already in the midst of the resistance work. In 1939 his first art historical work appears, which is considered to be his best book: the biography of Matthijs Maris, written with a great deal of soul. His next novel, 'In de Bloeiende Ramenas' (Amsterdam, 1938), was received well, like the first one. Then he makes his debut with the novel 'Het uilenhuis' (Amsterdam, 1938), for which he receives an honorable mention at the novel prize set by the Kosmos publishing house. The poems and novellas written between 19 remained unpublished. A number of members of the Jewish community there had offered that painting to the city and Arondéus was given the assignment.Īround 1935 he turned away from the visual arts and from now on he will dedicate himself exclusively to writing.

A happy breakthrough came to him in the same year when he was commissioned to make a wall painting in the Rotterdam City Hall.

He illustrated poems by Leopold, Boutens and Nijhoff and received some commissions for posters, including for Christmas stamps issued by the PTT in 1923. After conquering a lot of opposition in the parental home, he attended drawing and painting lessons at the Quellinusschool in Rotterdam. Through contact with artists in Laren and Blaricum, he decided to focus on the visual arts. A dominating mother, two energetic older brothers who emigrated to Canada and his homophilia left a mark on his life. In his youth, he was uncertain for a long time about the direction he would choose in his life. Willem Johan Cornelis Arondeus (known under the name Arondéus) was born on 22 August 1894 in Naarden, son of Hendrik Cornelis Arondeus and Catharina Wilhelmina de Vries.Īs the youngest son, Arondéus was born in the family of an Amsterdam fuel retailer in Naarden, where his mother and a few daughters drove a restaurant in the summer months. Willem Johan Cornelis Arondeus is Notable.