Jaap Gidding (1887-1955), who designed this window in the 'Tuschinsky-style', was one of the artists to cooperated in the designing of the interior of the famous Tuschinsky Theatre in Amsterdam. The architecture and the interior of the theatre, which was built between 1918 and 1921, are a typical example of the Amsterdam School style, the Dutch variant of the international Art Deco. Various designers attributed their artistry to the theatre in the form of mural paintings, carpets, lightning and glazing. Gidding was a versitile artist who designed glass, ceramics, furnishings, leaded glass and glass mosaic, mural- and ceiling paintigs and decorative panels in eternite (see lot number ...). Other then in the Tuschinsky Theatre, Gidding's work can be found in the collection of the Boymans-van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam and in shopping centre of the 'Bijenkorf' in The Hague.

cf. C. Hoogeveld, Glas en Lood in Nederland 1817-1968, Den Haag, p. 80, afb. 69a for illustrations of the interior of the Tuschinski Theatre, and afb. 69b&c for its leaded glass, and p. 78, afb. 68b-d, p. 84, afb. 75a&b and p. 85, afb. 76, for leaded glass windows by Bogtman
See colour illustration (p. )