In January, the New Year’s Eve club Vesuvius announced that it had taken the statue to reveal to the village during the turn of the year. For example, they would have ‘borrowed’ the image. The maker of the statue, artist Franty, announced after the disappearance to AT5 that he hoped that the image would return. And that was allowed: since yesterday afternoon the bronze of Duin has been looking forward to the Royal Theater Carré. Frankey responds delighted to the return. “André is a hero of the city!”
The New Year’s Club informed AT5 at the beginning of January that ‘contact was made as soon as possible to make an appointment with the municipality about when the image would be returned’. The festive atmosphere around the return of the image was a promise that the New Year’s Club made, but in the end did not know how to make it. The New Year’s Eve association was not available for comment this Sunday.
Tradition of images
Every year the Vesuvius club Elsloo takes a trophy that the choice fell out of Duin for the last time was no coincidence. “With his positive attitude, humor, fun, interest and laugh, he would fit in with the village image full of community sense,” the New Year’s Club wrote earlier in their statement. A coincidence was that the club’s 60th anniversary coincided with the period of 60 years that Van Duin is in the business.
The bronze statue was made in honor of Van Duin’s 75th birthday and placed on the Rokin in February 2022. That didn’t last long because of storms, Flip flute kettle was taken away from the center and was temporarily sitting on the couch of maker Frankey. Later the statue was given a permanent place on the Amstel, overlooking Carré.
At the beginning of January the statue appeared in the Frisian Elsloo. How the image came back and whether it was really attached to the old place is still unclear. This Sunday, the phone for AT5 is not answered at the Frisian New Year’s Eve association.