Creator Bio
Adolf van der Laan
1684–1755
Adolf van der Laan was a Dutch painter and printmaker who worked in Amsterdam and Paris.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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Portuguese and Ashkenazic Synagogues in Amsterdam
In 1670, Amsterdam’s Portuguese Jewish community commissioned a new synagogue, which, when finished, was the largest in the world. The master mason Elias Bouman, a non-Jew who had helped design the…