Pictures of the aluminium centre ceiling decoration of the Grand Hall aboard the Nieuw Amsterdam II (1938) by John Rädecker. The figures represent the different stages in a human life, from birth to death. The family (father, mother and child) are in the centre dish. During the second world war, when the Nieuw Amsterdam II served as a troopship these panels where removed and safely stored to be reinstalled again in the Grand Hall after the war. After a refurbishment of the Nieuw Amsterdam II in 1951 the panels where permanently removed and found a new home in the in the café of the Rotterdam theatre. Now the panels are on display and in the care of the Rotterdam Maritime Museum.
	Some pictures showing the ceiling piece in the Grand Hall and in the theatre café.