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Remembering the iconic Dutch artist Dick Bruna, which many of you may best know for his creation of Miffy (known as Nijntje in Dutch).
A true original.
Wikipedia: Dick Bruna
Official Miffy site: www.miffy.com
Miffy is the main character in a series of children's picture books. The books were written and illustrated by Dick Bruna
(1927-2017).
Nijntje is de hoofdpersoon van een serie kinderprentenboeken. De boeken zijn geschreven en getekend door Dick Bruna (1927-2017).
Miffy ist die Hauptfigur einer Reihe von Kinderbilderbüchern. Die Bücher wurden von Dick Bruna (1927–2017) geschrieben und illustriert.
Miffy est le personnage principal d'une série de livres d'images pour enfants. Les livres ont été écrits et illustrés par Dick Bruna (1927-2017).
Dutch detective paperback of Havank - de weduwe in de wilgen. Published by Atlas in the Atlas Havank Reeks in 1955. Cover by Dick Bruna (early work of the founder of Nijntje/Miffy)
Dick Bruna combined 1 drawing for 3 paperbacks of Havank in 1955. Very clever. Also a cross-over with the skull for another paperback.
Description in English and Dutch:
English
According to eastern astrology, Dick Bruna was born in Utrecht in the year of the rabbit. The beloved world-famous artist and writer sadly passed away in 2017. He has done and published a lot in his long career. He achieved world fame and international recognition with Nijntje children's books. In other countries, Nijntje is best known as Miffy, because Nijntje is not always easy to pronounce. Nijntje is derived from the Dutch word konijn which means rabbit in English. Bruna was one of the famous people who were born in Utrecht and who have become known worldwide. Other famous people from Utrecht include multiple world football player of the year Marco van Basten, Olympic judo champion Anton Geesink, champions league winner Wesley Sneijder and former world champion 200m sprint Daphne Schippers. A man with great football talent as a winger, Jan Monster would probably also have become internationally known were it not for the fact that Henk Duut prematurely ended his career with a scandalous foul, but this aside. Miffy was created in 1955 during a holiday in a seaside holiday resort of Egmond aan Zee. A white bunny was walking around at the holiday home where the Bruna family stayed. The rabbit was a great inspiration for him. He told his eldest son stories about this rabbit and later he started to draw the rabbit and the phenomenon Miffy was created. Since last February there stands a beautiful blue steam train locomotive in the public transport terminal of the impressive Utrecht Central Station. It is the train from the book 'Miffy train journey'. The tribute to Bruna is made of recyclable wood and plastic for sustainability reasons and the artwork is 2.5 meters high and four meters long. The project had cost 50,000 euros and was designed by design agency Unit-D. This photo I took yesterday night at 03:12 after taking the night train.
Nederlands
Volgens de oosterse astrologie werd Dick Bruna in Utrecht geboren in het jaar van het konijn. De geliefde wereldberoemde tekenaar en schrijver is helaas in 2017 overleden. Hij heeft in zijn lange carrière veel gedaan en gepubliceerd. Met de kinderboeken van Nijntje verwierf hij wereldfaam en internationale erkenning. In andere landen is Nijntje vooral bekend als Miffy. Nijntje is afgeleid van het Nederlandse woord konijn, wat rabbit betekent in het Engels. Bruna was een van de beroemde mensen die in Utrecht is geboren en wereldwijd bekend is geworden. Andere bekende Utrechters zijn onder meer meervoudig wereldvoetballer van het jaar Marco van Basten, Olympisch judokampioen Anton Geesink, Champions League-winnaar Wesley Sneijder en voormalig wereldkampioen 200m sprint Daphne Schippers. Een man met groot voetbaltalent als buitenspeler, Jan Monster zou waarschijnlijk ook internationaal bekend zijn geworden ware het niet dat Henk Duut zijn loopbaan voortijdig beëindigde met een schandalige overtreding, maar dit terzijde. Nijntje is ontstaan in 1955 tijdens een vakantie in de fijne badplaats Egmond aan Zee. Bij het vakantiehuisje waar de familie Bruna verbleef, liep een wit konijntje rond. Het konijn was een grote inspiratiebron voor hem. Hij vertelde voor het slapengaan zijn oudste zoon verhaaltjes over dit konijn en later begon hij het konijn er ook bij te tekenen en zo ontstond het fenomeen Nijntje. Sinds februari 2021 staat er een prachtige blauwe locomotief van een stoomtrein in de OV-terminal van het indrukwekkende Centraal Station van Utrecht. Het is de trein uit het boek 'Nijntje treinreis'. Het eerbetoon aan Bruna is om duurzaamheidsredenen gemaakt van recyclebaar hout en plastic en het kunstwerk is 2,5 meter hoog en vier meter lang. Het project heeft 50.000 euro gekost en is ontworpen door ontwerpbureau Unit-D. Deze foto heb ik gisteren in de nacht van woensdag op donderdag genomen om 03:12 nadat ik de nachttrein had genomen.
Repost of a 2015 picture, as a tribute to Miffy creator Dick Bruna, who has died yesterday, february 17, 2017. Aged 89.
Centraal Museum in Utrecht is paying tribute to Dick Bruna’s world famous bunny rabbit with the exhibition: Celebrating 60 years of Miffy!
The Party Dress by Piet Paris is a sculpture at the Nijntje / Miffy Art Parade where colleague artists show their own Miffy.
More Miffy at
now i just got back home.
i went on a one-day trip today,
it was a really lovely, sunny day but i got so exhausted...
sorry, i'm so sleepy, see you on Monday!
@ikaho, GUNMA, JAPAN
*camera--polaroid SX-70
※thank you for shooting, "young leaves" ;)))
I found these on a wall, the unknown artist gives his/her own interpretation of the famous Miffy, in Dutch "nijntje".
History (WiKi)
Miffy was created in 1955 after artist Dick Bruna had been telling his one-year-old son, Sierk, stories about a little rabbit they had seen earlier in the dunes, while on holiday at Egmond aan Zee. Miffy became a female after Bruna decided that he wanted to draw a dress and not trousers on his rabbit. Depending on the story, Miffy can range in age from being a baby to being four years old.
At first Miffy looked like a toy animal with floppy ears but by 1963, she looked the way we see her today a stylized form of a rabbit. Miffy is drawn in a graphic style, with minimalist black graphic lines. Bruna chooses to only use black, white, the primary colors (red, yellow and blue), green and orange. It is his use of primarily primary colors that makes Miffy instantly recognisable, and also popular with preschoolers, because of her bright and intense simplistic colors.
There are now almost 32 Miffy titles and many more for the other characters. Bruna has produced a total of 124 picture books for children. The Miffy books each contain twelve pages of story. Each page has one illustration and four lines of verse, the last word of the second line rhymes with the last of the fourth. They are written about things that children can understand, and situations they will face such as going to the hospital and going to school, and they always have a happy ending. Some books have no text at all, such as Miffy's Dream.
The books are printed in small format. Bruna considers it important that his audience feels that his books are there for them, not for their parents. Most Miffy books have an advisory reading level of age 4 to 8 years.
Bruna's books have now been translated into more than 50 different languages, and over 85 million copies have been sold all over the world. He has won many awards for his books, such as the Golden Brush in 1990, for Boris Bear and the Silver Brush for Miffy In The Tent in 1996. In 1997, he was awarded the Silver Slate for Dear Grandma Bunny, a book where Miffy's Grandmother was sick and died.
The other characters that appear in the books are her family: Miffy's parents, her Grandma and Grandpa who are her father's parents, her Auntie Alice which is her father's sister, and 'Uncle Brian' a family friend, who appears in Miffy Goes Flying. A new brother or sister for Miffy is introduced in Miffy And The New Baby. She also has many friends, Boris and Barbara Bear, who first appeared in 1989 and are boyfriend and girlfriend, Poppy Pig, who appeared in 1977, and her niece Grunty, Snuffy, who appeared in 1969, and other bunnies such as Aggie and Melanie.
Miffy was designed as a children's book character, but the design is now used on many other things like clothes, stationery, toys, glasses, household items etc.
People pause for a moment on the steps leading up to the statue that commemorates those who lost their lives in the World Wars. The statue stands where the nave of the cathedral used to stand, before it was destroyed in a storm. Only part of the cathedral remains.
It was a good reminder of why peace is so important. Most of the International Day of Peace events were held in and around the Domplein (Dom Square).
Nijntje (or Miffy in some languages) was a creation of Dick Bruna (1927-2017). He was an illustrator and writer, most famous for his children's books about the small rabbit Nijntje. He designed and wrote these books between 1955 and 2007. The Centraal Museum in Utrecht has a department about his work. Also in the museum shop a lot of Nijntje merchandise can be found.
1968; De Wrekers Lijken in Actie [The Laugh was on Lazarus] by John Garforth. The Avengers ABC Television John Steed and Emma Peel. Cover design by Dick Bruna.
Flowers at a statue of Nijntje (or Miffy) in front of the Nijntje Museum in Utrecht. The flowers are in honour of Dick Bruna, the creator of Nijntje, who died last week at 89 years of age.
the Dick Bruna house, part of the Centraal Museum in Utrecht, was opened
on February 16 2006 by HRH Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands as
a tribute to Dick Bruna.
Design:
Project coordination, restauration, architectural and interior design:
Versseput Architecten, Utrecht
Interior and exhibition design:
Sherrie Zwail / SZI Design, Amsterdam
Print design and house style:
Pentagram, London
1970; De Wrekers Heil Harris! by John Garforth. The Avengers ABC Television John Steed and Emma Peel. Cover design by Dick Bruna.
Nijntje (or Miffy in some languages) was a creation of Dick Bruna (1927-2017). He was an illustrator and writer, most famous for his children's books about the small rabbit Nijntje he made from 1955 until 2007. This statue of Nijntje is in the garden of the Centraal Museum in Utrecht in front of the Nicolaïkerk.
Overtoom 26/11/2022 11h07
Street art Frankey gives the city small inconspicuous surprises. Sometimes quite large, sometimes very small. Every week a photo with one of his recent works appears in the supplement to the newspaper Het Parool. A great opportunity to take a closer look at his work. Sometimes you have to search to find it and sometimes it is already gone.
Nijntje (in English Miffy) is a fictional rabbit appearing in a series of picture books drawn and written by Dutch artist Dick Bruna. The original Dutch name, "Nijntje", is a shortening of the diminutive konijntje, "little rabbit". Here installed on a lamppost in front of the rehabilitation center Reade.
NIJNTJE
Overtoom, Amsterdam Oud-West
November 2022 (Het Parool, 26/11/2022)
Streetart Frankey
Streetart Frankey (pseudonym of Frank de Ruwe) is a Dutch artist who wants to positively influence the street scene with relatively small and often inconspicuous works of art.
He grew up in Nijmegen, father was an inventor at Philips Netherlands. He studied at Delft University of Technology (Industrial design). In daily life director of and working for design collective Natwerk. In Amsterdam, many of his works in the street art category can be found on buildings, streets and bridges, often in addition to existing building elements. He himself about his work;
"I want to push boundaries. Art has no boundaries, that's why I like it so much."
In 2019, a special page has been dedicated to his art in Het Parool for a number of years; first he took care of that section himself, later he had to leave that work to others because of busy work. A little later his work Eberhard van der Laan appeared above the entrance of Paradiso.
One of the works that inspired him is the Boomzagertje in the Leidsebosje, a work by an as yet unknown artist.
[ Wikipedia ]
The world famous (?) Miffy got 50 years last year and in honour of this happy-happy joyful event Miffy, among other things, got its own traffic light. It's one of a kind. Miffy's creator Dick Bruna lives in my hometown Utrecht.
Utrecht even has a Miffy Museum. Miffy was a childs book, illustrated by Utrecht native, illustrator Dick Bruna. The first one come out in 1955, there have been close to thirty released since. We did bring home some Dick Bruna, but not in the form of Miffy, rather two early book covers for mysteries by Georges Simenon.
1968; De Wekers [The Laugh was on Lazarus] Lijken in Actie by John Garforth. Cover made by Dick Bruna. Of the very popular ABC television serie of The Avengers [De Wrekers]. Diana Rigg as Emma Peel
1970; De Wrekers Het heengaan van Gloria Munday [The passing of Gloria Munday] by John Garforth. The Avengers ABC Television John Steed and Emma Peel. Cover design by Dick Bruna.
Overtoom 26/11/2022 11h05
Street art Frankey gives the city small inconspicuous surprises. Sometimes quite large, sometimes very small. Every week a photo with one of his recent works appears in the supplement to the newspaper Het Parool. A great opportunity to take a closer look at his work. Sometimes you have to search to find it and sometimes it is already gone.
Nijntje (in English Miffy) is a fictional rabbit appearing in a series of picture books drawn and written by Dutch artist Dick Bruna. The original Dutch name, "Nijntje", is a shortening of the diminutive konijntje, "little rabbit". Here installed on a lamppost in front of the rehabilitation center Reade.
NIJNTJE
Overtoom, Amsterdam Oud-West
November 2022 (Het Parool, 26/11/2022)
Streetart Frankey
Streetart Frankey (pseudonym of Frank de Ruwe) is a Dutch artist who wants to positively influence the street scene with relatively small and often inconspicuous works of art.
He grew up in Nijmegen, father was an inventor at Philips Netherlands. He studied at Delft University of Technology (Industrial design). In daily life director of and working for design collective Natwerk. In Amsterdam, many of his works in the street art category can be found on buildings, streets and bridges, often in addition to existing building elements. He himself about his work;
"I want to push boundaries. Art has no boundaries, that's why I like it so much."
In 2019, a special page has been dedicated to his art in Het Parool for a number of years; first he took care of that section himself, later he had to leave that work to others because of busy work. A little later his work Eberhard van der Laan appeared above the entrance of Paradiso.
One of the works that inspired him is the Boomzagertje in the Leidsebosje, a work by an as yet unknown artist.
[ Wikipedia ]
c. 1969
designed by Dick Bruna
"designs for children's postage stamps based on the theme of child and music"
—descriptive text found in my copy of Dick Bruna