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Before he gained a reputation as the sculptor of the National Monument on Amsterdam's Dam square (1948-1956), Rädecker's work had undergone an interesting development. His earliest work shows diverse influences, ranging from Art Nouveau to non-European art and Cubism. His breakthrough occurred around 1909-1911 when he began making luminist paintings, in keeping with international modernism. In Paris between 1911 and 1914 he adopted an abstract style for a while. After the First World War he received acclaim as an influential expressionist sculptor with a very personal blend of style influences. He deviated from the classic motifs of sculpture by enriching the medium with visionary heads as well as human and animal forms that were as yet unfamiliar to the art of sculpture. At the same time he worked in a very naturalistic manner, which became increasingly the case from 1929 on. Around this time his earlier distorted sculptures made way for a more classical approach