'Looking back' (2021) Oil on canvas 100 x 70 cm This painting shows the combination of two buildings of the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC). In the foreground is the former Women's Clinic and in the background the new building of the LUMC. Cars from the 1960s and 1970s are parked in front of the building. The LUMC has a long history. In 1575 William of Orange donated a university to Leiden, the first in the Northern Netherlands. In 1873, the first academic hospital built as such opened its doors on Steenstraat (now Museum Volkenkunde). The main building of the University Hospital was built between 1925 and 1928. There was a need for more laboratory space and safer and more comfortable conditions for patients and staff. A new hospital on Rijnsburgerweg had to meet this need. The main building was part of the extensive academic hospital complex. Only the Poortgebouw remains of this complex. In the 1980s and 1990s, all clinical departments gradually moved from the pavilions to the new building: the current Building 1 of the LUMC. With the opening of two new buildings (for research and education) on December 1, 2006, all core tasks were united in one place. The different buildings are connected by walkways and tunnels.
