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Constructivist Jan van der Zee

Jan van der Zee (Leeuwarden 1898-1988 Groningen) took drawing lessons from Jan Mankes during HBS and, during his military service during WWI, came into contact with the work of Bart van der Leck in...

Sunny Evert Pieters

Pieters (Amsterdam 1856- 1933 Laren) was born into a poor family. At the age of nineteen he went to Antwerp in the hope of building a better life there as an apprentice decorator. He attended eveni...

Barones Charlotte van Pallandt

Charlotte Dorothée Baroness van Pallandt (Arnhem 1898 – 1997 Noordwijk) was a Dutch painter and one of the most important Dutch sculptors. Charlotte van Pallandt grew up in Schaarsbergen, where she...

Locomotive Harry Maas

Harry Maas (Nederweert 1906-1982 Eindhoven) is a son of the unruly teacher Herman, who as a writer addresses social abuses and is therefore called the 'Brabantse Zola'. Harry grows up in Roermond a...

Dreamer Joop Polder

Joop Polder (The Hague 1939) trained at the Royal Academy in The Hague, The Royal Academy of Visual Arts in Brussels and the Academie des Beaux Arts in Paris. Joop Polder draws his inspiration from...

World traveller Dooyewaard

Willem Dooijewaard (Amsterdam 1892-1980 Blaricum) was trained at the National School of Applied Arts in Amsterdam by Roland Strasser and Georg Sturm. He was Jaap's brother, sixteen years younger, a...

Colorful Herman Gouwe

Adriaan Herman Gouwe (Alkmaar 1875 -1965 Tahiti) trained at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam, where he was a student friend of the Maastricht artist Rob Graafland and became a m...

Fantast Carel Willink

Stately, enigmatic, cool, elegant and the world at a distance, Carel Willink (1900-1983) is the grand master of neorealism. From the age of thirty, his reputation as an incomparable painter grew. H...