title: Piet Esser
text: # Piet Esser
  
  Vincent Pieter Semeyn Esser known as Piet Esser (9 March 1914, Baarn – 19 November 2004) was a Dutch sculptor.
  
  ## Biography
  
  Esser was part of the Dutch "Groep van de figuratieve abstractie" (Figurative abstraction group). He won a silver medal at the Prix de Rome in 1938, and became a professor at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam in 1947.
  
  ## Selected works
  
  * Troelstramonument (monument to Pieter Jelles Troelstra) in The Hague (1953)
  * Watersnood 1953 (North Sea flood of 1953) in sculpture garden of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (1957)
  * Brederomonument (monument to Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero) in Amsterdam (1968)
  * Icarus in The Hague (1974)
  * Barmhartige Samaritaan (Good Samaritan) in Utrecht (1976)
  * Statue of Cornelis Lely in Lelystad (1984, erected 2002 but removed at sculptor's request in 2003)
  