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Headstrong Jeanne Bieruma Oosting

Adriana Johanna Wilhelmina (Jeanne) Bieruma Oosting (1898-1994) was a versatile Dutch artist, known for her work as an etcher, graphic artist, watercolorist, sculptor, and painter. Born in Leeuward...

Pol Dom

Paul (Pol) Dom (Antwerpen 1885 - 1978 Den Haag) was born in Antwerp. After his studies at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, he participated in the competition for the Prix de Rome for engr...

Maritime Evert Moll

Evert Moll (Voorburg 1878 - 1955 The Hague) became particularly well-known for his more than 1000 depictions of the Rotterdam harbor, which he painted in the twenties and thirties. Bridges, quays, ...

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...

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...

Joffer Ans van den Berg

Anna Carolina (Ans) van den Berg (Amsterdam 1873 -1942 Amsterdam) was a Dutch painter and one of the Amsterdamse Joffers, a group of women specializing in painting still lifes and flowers in a liv...

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...