This publication appears on the occasion of the centenary of Carel Willink's birth, as a tribute to an impressive artistry. This concise retrospective concentrates on two characteristic themes in Willink's work: the self-portraits and the paintings in which architecture plays an important role In addition to a text in which Sylvia Willink describes her personal memories of Carel Willink, texts are included by P.F. Thomése who gives his vision of the phenomenon of the self-portrait and by Betty van Garrel who concentrates on Willink's relationship to architecture.