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Minsu Yu

This is Minsu Yu, the owner of Classical Guitar Studio Partita, in Seoul, South-Korea. Last March he came all the way to Europe, to meet and greet guitar makers he represents, including me. Before he came to Amsterdam he  spent more than a week in Italy and after all the pasta he felt like some noodles. The first night we took him to a restaurant called Korea, which didn’t happen to be the perfect choice…  Luckily Minsu Yu stayed a few more days so we could make up for it.

Minsu Yu and I got to know each other thanks to the South Korean guitarist Ricardin Hwang about whom I wrote earlier.  Minsu, besides owing the most important guitar shop of South-Korea, turned out to be a very good guitar player.

Otto Vowinkel en Minsu Yu op het terras van Café de Prins in Amsterdam

minsu yu playing guitar in otto vowinkel's workshop

Filed Under: Amsterdam, dealers Tagged With: Minsu Yu, Partita, South Korea

in the workshop

This picture was taken by Marijn Scheeres. She liked the light in the workshop and asked if she could take a picture of it for Zaterdagochtend a weekly column in the Amsterdam newspaper Het Parool. It’s a popular column. I get many reactions.

otto vowinkel in het parool

Filed Under: Amsterdam, at the workshop, blogpost Tagged With: Het Parool

George Breitner

This is George Hendrik Breitner  (1857-1923), a Dutch painter who lived and worked on the Lauriergracht, the canal where my workshop is located. Until February 2015 there will be an exhibition about his work in het Stadsarchief, in a beautiful building that alone is worth paying a visit.

The reason why I’m telling you this,  is because of the painting underneath which can be found at the Rijksmuseum. It’s called the Corner of Lauriergracht and tweede Laurierdwarsstraat. That’s exactly where my workshop is!

george breitner

george breitner workshop otto vowinkel

Filed Under: Amsterdam, at the workshop, blogpost Tagged With: George Breitner, Rijksmuseum, Stadsarchief

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