Hoek van Holland is bordering the North Sea and the New Waterway. The New Waterway is the last piece of the connection of Rotterdam with the sea, and in 1872 came about. The length of this digging through the sand dunes at what is now called the Hoek van Holland, but at that time belonged to the municipality 's-Gravenzande, was 4.3 km. The widening of the beach she is now longer. From 1877, the passage was important broadened and deepened and really came a new waterway established.
Rotterdam was in the middle of the 19th century, has become one of the largest port cities. This was among other things due to the large proportion of transit to Germany and England. The increase in the number of ship movements led to a capacity problem. The delta of the Rhine was also branched so that it became increasingly difficult for the modern larger ships of the time to reach the harbor.
My name is Lida Bruinen, I was born in 1962. After years of drawing mandalas with colored pencil I was ready for more intense materials. In the past I worked with watercolors, but now I mainly choose to paint with acrylics, often in combination with collage. However,.. Read more…