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Fons Olterdissen Statue

Fons Olterdissen Statue

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Fons Olterdissen Statue

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Location: Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands

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Gudi

September 15, 2025

Fons was born in Maastricht in 1865 to a German father and a mother from Zeeland, both Protestants. He learned his trade on the streets of Maastricht. His birthplace is on Boschstraat. After elementary school, Fons worked as a decorative painter at De Sphinx. At the instigation of the painter Henri Govaerts, he attended art school in Amsterdam. He returned in 1888.

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Gudi

September 15, 2025

Fons was at the cradle of today's VVV, was the initiator of the first carnival parade, and wrote several highly successful Kemikke operas (including Kapitein van de Köpenick), which are still performed today. His brother Guus, a musician, composed the music based on well-known arias and children's songs. The melody of the first movement of the Maastricht national anthem sounds suspiciously like the first movement of the Albanian national anthem, but that would be a coincidence.

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yves klein

November 17, 2023

The final chorus of his opera Trijn de Begijn became the "Mestreechs Volksleed", the official anthem of the city of Maastricht since 2002.

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Elevation 100 m

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