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Henri Gerard Michel Leo Kappers (1) son of Jacob Kappers (KK VIII c)     and Maria Regina Johanna Van Ierland June 8, 1913 at Rotterdam (The Netherlands) August 25, 2001 at Rotterdam (The Netherlands) August 30, 2001 at Schoonhoven (The Netherlands)

I   Pietertje (Nel) Everding, naaister     daughter of Karl August Everding                and Aaltje Neeleman January 9, 1911 at Overschie (The Netherlands) February 11, 1988 at Capelle aan den IJssel (The Netherlands)

Profession: carpenter, maquettebuilder, plastic artist, education at the Academy for Plastic Arts and Design at Rotterdam. Henri Kappers founded in 1950 the company Kappers Maquettes, in 2004 known as the Kappers Maquette Ateliers. From 1950 on the company has been very successfull in the production of maquettes. The enormous construction activities after the Second World War to rebuild the ruined city of Rotterdam gave Henri Kappers a large number of orders for very different kinds of maquettes, to make architecture and city development plans more visual. Many leading architects and project developers found and still find their way to Kappers. So Kappers Maquette Ateliers has become the largest and most leading company in its branche in Europe. Henri Kappers painted also the aquarelle of the farmhouse Kappers. In the upper corners of this page you can see an icone of this painting.

H I April 6, 1937 at Overschie (The Netherlands)

 

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April 18, 1946 at Rotterdam (The Netherlands)

René Kappers

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Notes

1	A genealogical research has been carried out by René Kappers. A complete description is available in Dutch.