Victims of the flood last summer can choose a free work of art in Valkenburg in the coming days.
The paintings come from the collection of artist Netty Beukers, 84 years old, from Leiden.
Stripped
It makes about 350 works available. “Netty was deeply upset by the images of the flood,” says Jules Peters of the Valkenburg Volunteer Center. He is the initiator of ‘Netty’s Kunst voor Valkenburg’: “As a child she experienced how her parental house went up in flames during the Second World War. She could therefore very well imagine the loss of the victims of the flood. She wanted to do something. .”
Rieu
Netty decides to write a letter offering her support. Support in the form of hundreds of works that they
makes available. Only Netty doesn’t quite know where to send that letter. She decides to send him to the only Limburger she knows (from television): André Rieu. Jules Peters: “Yes, and André forwarded that letter to the municipality of Valkenburg, where it eventually ended up with me. I drove to Leiden, got to know Netty, immediately took a van full of works back to the South, so we can hand them out this weekend.”
Monastery Church
Together with the Art and Culture Council Valkenburg, Peters organizes the distribution of the works in the Kloosterkerk. Victims of the flood can receive one work for free, other interested parties can take a work with them for a fee, the proceeds of which will then go to those affected. Netty Beukers is also there: “May my work bring a little color and cheerfulness to the empty and bare walls of the affected homes.”