The Glass Tower of Heesen
The Glass Tower was commissioned by the Rijksgebouwendienst and was placed in front of the entrance to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam in 1976. For the design, he sought to connect to the facade of the Van Gogh Museum, which consists of crushed concrete bricks and glass.
The plinth was buried, making it look as if the glass had shot up from the ground. A total of 1,032 crystal cubes were incorporated into the tower. At 5 metres tall, the Glass Tower was the largest glass sculpture in the Netherlands.
The Glass Tower to Leerdam
Due to a renovation of the Van Gogh Museu...
The Glass Tower was commissioned by the Rijksgebouwendienst and was placed in front of the entrance to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam in 1976. For the design, he sought to connect to the facade of the Van Gogh Museum, which consists of crushed concrete bricks and glass.
The plinth was buried, making it look as if the glass had shot up from the ground. A total of 1,032 crystal cubes were incorporated into the tower. At 5 metres tall, the Glass Tower was the largest glass sculpture in the Netherlands.
The Glass Tower to Leerdam
Due to a renovation of the Van Gogh Museum, the Glass Tower had to be demolished years later. The Government Buildings Agency transferred Willem Heesen's work to the National Glass Museum Foundation in 2010. Soon after, the National Glass Museum received a large financial contribution from the Association of Friends of Modern Glass to rebuild The Glass Tower. Together with income from a crowdfunding campaign, this was enough to rebuild the tower in 2016. The tower is now part of the dyke park on the Glass Road.