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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...

Expressionist yet Figurative Beckman

Max Carl Friedrich Beckmann (Leipzig 1884 –1950 New York) was a German painter, printmaker, sculptor, and writer. Although he is classified as an Expressionist artist, he rejected both the term and...

Traumatised Armando

Herman Dirk van Dodeweerd (Amsterdam 1929-2018 Potsdam) was a Dutch sculptor, painter, writer, and violinist who adopted the name Armando as an artist and became an influential figure ...

Modernist Jan Sluijters

Jan Sluijters (Den Bosch 1881-1957) is the master of Dutch modernism. An outstanding aspect of Sluijters' work is the diversity of styles and subjects he tackled. From colorful fauvist...

Lonely Fernard Khnopff

Fernand Edmond Jean Marie Khnopff (Grembergen 1858 – 1921 Brussels) was one of Belgium's greatest symbolist painters, sculptors, and designers. Symbolist artists utilized dreams to access a world b...