Street art · Rotterdam

Boefje

By Tineke Nusink

Boefje by Tineke Nusink, Rotterdam
Photo: Ivory, Public domain

Who's this scrappy kid frozen mid-gesture on a granite plinth? Meet 'Boefje' (Little Rascal), a bronze homage to Rotterdam's street urchins—cap, rolled trousers and all—channeling the same working-class sentimentality as 19th-century genre sculpture.

Source: OpenStreetMap contributors, photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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