A cloaked reaper grips a sickle beside sheaves of wheat

A crouching figure in white, wrapped in a swirling blue cloak, grips the handle of a curved sickle in one hand and leans over pale, scalloped sheaves of wheat at the lower left. Wavy lines and two small white discs pattern the gold ground above. Bold blue lettering fills a band across the base, and the sheet is inscribed as the design for August in a calendar series.

Willem Arondéus (1894–1943) was a Dutch artist and writer who designed calendars, posters and tapestries before joining the resistance. Trained in decorative painting at the Quellinus school in Amsterdam and an admirer of Richard Roland Holst, he painted a mural for Rotterdam City Hall in 1923, illustrated poems by Leopold, Boutens and Nijhoff, and wove nine tapestries of North Holland's municipal arms for the provincial hall in Haarlem. After helping to bomb the Amsterdam population registry in 1943 he was executed. His work is held by the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Dutch Resistance Museum and Het Nieuwe Instituut.

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