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Round about 'Paris-Brest' by Pol Dom

There is something magical about Paris. The city is alive and has a grandeur and charm that cannot be compared to other cities in the world. Pol Dom's work was painted decades ago but if you now go...

Bread painter Jan Knikker jr.

Jan Simon Knikker (Leiden 1911-1990 The Hague) comes from a family of painters. Cousin Aris and father Jan Simon preceded him. Jan Knikker senior was a self-taught artist and settled at the turn of...

Popcorn in the circus of Klein

The circus was a source of inspiration for many Dutch artists. Including Kees Maks, Leo Gestel, Herbert Fiedler, G.H. Breitner, Gerard Hordijk and our Frits Klein depict the circus. The audience wa...

Chicory from Helmantel

Helmantel feels strongly connected to the tradition of more than 500 years of Western European painting and is a fine painter. He captures ingredients and interiors with extreme precision as if it ...

Professor Fred Carasso

Fred Carasso (Turin 1899-1969 Amsterdam) came from Carigno in Italy, where he was trained in his father's furniture workshop. He fled Mussolini's Italy to Paris, where he worked as a carpenter. Her...

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...

Razor clams by HKO

Kamerlingh Onnes makes all kinds of fun drawings, watercolors and paintings that are taken from life. This includes this work by two girls who have certainly played in the surf with their rubber bo...

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...