2028 will be a Dürer year. In preparation for a trilogy of exhibitions, we were able to purchase this rare copperplate engraving from the art dealer Helmut H. Rumbler, which Iris Ellers and Guido Scholten had set their sights on at TEFAF in March.

 

Jan van Delft (1879–1952), Portraits of Amalia Bernhardina Brenninkmeyer and Eduard Clemens Brenninkmeyer, 1934

A total of 65 family-owned objects were brought to our depot for temporary storage in 2018. Among them were several paintings with family portraits and Christian motifs. In 2024, we were finally able to obtain a donation from them.

Peter Klashorst (1957–2024), View of Amsterdam  

Michiel Zuidervaart, Longerje nei it Hjoed yn Snits, screen print, Bredevoort, 2008

The collection consists of six motifs that the artist created as a commissioned work for COFRA Holding. The motifs show the artist's journey through Sneek, following in the footsteps of the founders Clemens and August and the first C&A store. The series is edited to 15 for the large formats and 40 for the smaller formats, which show details. We received six small and two large framed silkscreens from the series.

 

Peggy und Thomas Henke Film Archive, 1998–2023
The donation includes Thomas Henke's film portraits as well as a joint work by Peggy and Thomas Henke in the form of a hard drive (approx. 6.5 TByte) in a case and three copies of the publication “Cinema Altera” (inventory catalog).

 

Markus Vater, Objects of Significance, 2023 

The collection consists of twelve inkjet prints on paper, framed in white; selection from the group of works “Objects of Significance” for the collection and part of the exhibition LANGUAGE/TEXT/IMAGE.

These and other sustainable textiles, as well as the digital office filing system used to found the “Fashion for Good” initiative, are now in Draiflessen, following the closure of the museum in Amsterdam in June 2024. The trousers were part of the exhibition.

Raimund Hötte was a long-standing C&A employee. In 2024, he and his wife bequeathed the morning coat worn for their wedding on June 18, 1966, as well as the bride's wedding dress to the Draiflessen Collection. A photograph of the bridal couple, also now in our collection, conveys fashion and zeitgeist in a particularly beautiful way.

Model on a scale of 1:160 of C&A Budapest, No1 Vörösmarty Ter (Vörösmarty Square 1); Developer: ING Ter Real Estate, Architect: Fazakas György, Consultant Architect: Jean Paul Viguier; with illuminants.

The model shows a building in which one of a total of nine C&A branches in Budapest is located (as of January 2, 2025). The branch was opened in 2007. In 2010, the building received the FIABCI Prix d'Excellance Award.

 

Correspondence between the Brenninkmeijer and Hettlage families
 

Advertising material from C&A Great Britain, 1920s

Documents and photographs of members of the Brenninkmeijer family

Notebook with code words from various companies in the textile industry belonging to Alphons Brenninkmeijer (1884–1950), around 1915

Digital legacy of the “Fashion for Good” museum, Amsterdam
 

Documents on C&A's online retailing