Amsterdam respresentative
In order to better serve our European buyers and sellers, we have a representative in Amsterdam.
Amsterdam, with publishers like Willem and Joan Blaeu, Jodocus and Henricus Hondius, Johannes Janssonius, Frederick de Wit, Nicolas Visscher, Jacob Colom, Lootsman, and a dozen others ruled the European 17th-century map and atlas production.
It is here at the Pieter Lastmankade 2, within two kilometers of the Museumplein Park, home to the Rijksmuseum and Van Gogh Museum, and the place where the printshops of Blaeu and Hondius were located that the office of Paulus Swaen Europe b.v., is located.
Roland Boelen - Is representing Paulus Swaen Europe and has 25 years of experience in collection building and eventually selling a collection.Feel free to contact Roland Boelen if you want to sell Dutch prints, Cobra art in our auction, or for any assistance you need in selling your art collection in general.
Pierre Joppen - is the founder of Paulus Swaen and partner in Paulus Swaen Europe b.v. Pierre specializes since the foundation in 1978 in maps, atlases, and globes from the 16th to 18th century. His knowledge of Dutch early mapmakers, coloring techniques by 17th and 18th century colorists as Dirk Jansz. van Santen is world-renowned. Originally trained as a graphic designer he has a keen eye for the esthetic aspect of engraving and map-making.
email : pjoppen@swaen.com
Paulus Swaen / Roland Boelen
Pieter Lastmankade 2
1075 KJ Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel. +31 (20) 2255198
email : amsterdam@swaen.com
By appointment only