A.V.M.

Description

Artist Jos Peeters creates murals and restores historic wall advertisements. As the original historic wall advertisement for the insurance company Arnhemsche Verzekerings Maatschappij (A.V.M.) – which was based on an antique Dutch advertising poster for the insurance company dating from around 1910 – had faded considerably over the years, he meticulously restored the image of the horse-drawn fire engine in 2000. The mural at Lichte Gaard 3 in Utrecht was fully restored by Peeters in the summer of 2024; at the same time, he repainted the literary quotation by the Utrecht writer C.C.S. Crone beneath it in a clean, hand-painted typeface.

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Jesse

Street art lover/walker/photographer/researcher irl children’s book publisher, author and translator, living in Rotterdam. My favourite place in the world is London and in particular the area around Brick Lane (Shoreditch). My avatar is a picture taken at the corner of Braithwaite Street and Bethnal Green Road (Shoreditch, London) of a street art poster by Shepard Fairey and Damien Hirst: Third Eye Butterfly Mandala.

Location

Hunted on July 25, 2026

Lichte Gaard 9, 3511 KT Utrecht, Netherlands

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