{"id":636,"date":"2011-09-09T17:54:23","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T15:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beleefvenetie.nl\/?p=636"},"modified":"2020-05-08T13:47:03","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T11:47:03","slug":"de-merode-in-venezia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beleefvenetie.nl\/en\/de-merode-in-venezia\/","title":{"rendered":"De M\u00e9rode in Venezia"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Twice to Venice<\/h2>\n

De M\u00e9rode visited Venice twice in first half of the 20th century. According to his biographer Hans Werkman, his trip to the city in 1936 must have been one of the happiest of his life. After I read almost everything there is to be read about Willem de M\u00e9rode I can only stress this must be true. For De M\u00e9rode important elements of his life came together. Sadness, erotisicm, art, intellect, love and nostalgia. <\/strong><\/p>\n

The sweet black & white snapshot was taken during one of their gondola trips in 1936. Willem de M\u00e9rode and his friend Bram Corbijn van Willenswaard sit together in the black velvet. The location of the picture is at the Ponte della Paglia, the bridge in front of the Bridge of Sighs, seen from the San Marco Bacino (as my favorite gondeliere Kiko told me). When you mount at Piazza San Marco, this is usually the last part of the boating tour.<\/p>\n

Willem and Bram in Venice<\/h2>\n

During their stay in Venice, both resided in the luxurious hotel Bauer Gr\u00fcnwald at the Camp San Mois\u00e8, a stone’s through away from Piazza San Marco. No doubt this was an expensive hotel, intended for the moneyed traveller. These days a stay in this hotel will cost at least \u20ac 220,– per night. However, De M\u00e9rode was not ardently enthusiastic about his stay. He thought the other hotel guests made too much noise and he complained about that elaborately in his diary in which both Bram and Willem scribbled down all kind of information about their trip. Bram\u00b4s annotations mostly depict the food they ate btw.<\/p>\n

Already in 1921 Willem de M\u00e9rode caught the gondola ride he would take in 1936 de gondeltocht strikingly in a poem. Hans Werkman describes in the revised biography \u00b4Bitterzoete overvloed\u00b4 (2011) that Bram and Willem took a gondola ride three times because it gave them so much pleasure.<\/p>\n

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VENEZIA<\/h3>\n

‘t Was avond toen wij in een gondel gleden
\nDiep weggezonken in het zwart sameet
\nDe lucht leek als een wazig zilverkleed
\nEn ‘t water lag vol vage kostbaarheden.<\/p>\n

Wij luisterden: koel murmelde ‘t beneden,
\nEn langs de piazetta zoel en wreed
\nDeinde muziek; maar werelds liefde en leed
\nWas als een ziekte in onze jeugd gegleden.<\/p>\n

Uw hoofd lag zorgloos aan mijn knie gebogen.
\nZacht streelden mij uw schemergouden oogen,
\nUw haren glansden in diep gouden gloed.<\/p>\n

Over ons dreef de roep der gondelieren,
\nDie wild en vleiend ‘t donker leven vieren.
\nMaar rustig en gelukkig ruischte ons bloed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From: Het kostbare bloed, written in 1921<\/span><\/p>\n

Ponte di Paglia<\/h2>\n

The bridge of the gondolieres, seen from the tower of San Giorgio.<\/p>\n

\"Ponte<\/a><\/p>\n

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