Statues near Ermelo railway station - Ermelo

Just before Ermelo station, you cycle past two sculptures that stand a short distance apart and are worth dismounting:

Noah's Ark, Stationsstraat, Ermelo
The horizontal granite planes in this artwork invite you to sit on them for a while. They lie between slightly dark-coloured granite pillars placed in a circle. The top of the pillars is shaped like a mansard roof, just like the object resting on the polished top of the boulder in the middle. The artwork looks like a carefully constructed whole.

Christiaan Paul Damsté (Arnhem, 1944) was a long-time teacher at various art academies and is not only a sculptor, but also a painter and graphic artist. He always assembles his diverse materials in such a way as to create a certain order. Among others, the Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art in Ghent and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam have works by Damsté in their collections.

Scale birth Stationsstraat/Stationsplein, Ermelo
This object depicts a crystal marble egg topped by a bird hugging the egg with her wings. The original name was Mother Earth, because the artist wanted to name the earthy and maternal nature of the sculpture. It had stood in the courtyard garden of Ermelo town hall since 1978, but was moved to its current location in 2009.

Sculptor Johan Venus (Dordrecht, 1949) attended the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and, besides being a sculptor in Ermelo, was also a psychotherapist for a long time. His practice has now stopped and he works from home again as a sculptor.