Bust of Anne de Vries
Bronze bust of Anne de Vries, the author of Bartje, at the former museum Het dorp van Bartje in Rolde. It can no longer be visited.
The bust was made by Charles Henri and stands on a brick plinth on Balloërstraat. Weggemans, the member of the Drenthe provincial executive responsible for culture, unveiled it on 20 May 2006. Behind the bust stands a small replica of the statue of Bartje, made by Suze Boschma-Berkhout.
Anne de Vries was born in Assen in 1904 and died in Zeist in 1964. He was a schoolteacher and a writer. He made his name with Bartje (1935), the regional novel about the Drenthe boy Bartje Bartels.
The bust stands on the grounds of the museum Het dorp van Bartje. That museum closed for good on 1 January 2018, and since then the bust can no longer be seen.
