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Drawer Jan Rijlaarsdam

Jan Rijlaarsdam was born into a farming family in Nieuwkoop in 1911 and later moved with his family to Hilversum, where they ran a dairy business. Jan began working at a local frame maker's shop an...

Lovely Akkeringa

Impressionist painter Johannes Evert Akkeringa (Blinjoe 1861-1942 Amersfoort) grew up in a farming family and lost his father at a young age. After that, he and his two brothers were adopted by an ...

Colorful JAS

JAS, pseudonym for Johannes Adrianus Smit (Hillegom 1945 – 2002 Antwerp), joined the Hillegom painters' club 'Lijn en Kleur' at the age of 17, where the Leiden artist Henk Klinkhamer was also a me...

Briljant Ad Arma

Ad Arma (Rotterdam 1953) is the pseudonym of Ad Robert Meerman, a versatile Dutch artist specializing in sculpture, graphic art, painting, and glass art. The name 'Ad Arma' is Latin for 'to arms' ...

Decisive Theo Niermeijer

Theo Niermeijer was a sculptor, painter, graphic artist, installation artist, and architect. He was also a contemporary mystic. He received training in Amsterdam, Antwerp, and Warsaw. Theo Niermei...

Reinier Lucassen

Reinier Lucassen (Amsterdam 1939) is a Dutch painter. Lucassen studied at the Institute for Applied Arts Education in Amsterdam. From 1960 onward, he developed a figurative painting style that com...

Dog lover Eerelman

Eerelman (Groningen 1839-1926 Groningen) was interested in drawing and animals from a young age. His parents were of humble origin, and the young Otto, a child with weak health, received mostly ho...

Childish Herman Kruyder

Originally destined to become a house painter, Herman Kruyder (Lage Vuursche 1881-1935) evolved into one of the most important representatives of expressionism in the Netherlands. After training a...