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Outdoor painter Johan Meijer

Johannes (Johan) Meijer (Zwolle, 1885 – Laren, 1970) was a prominent member of the Larense School, a group of artists renowned for their impressionistic and naturalistic paintings. His body of...

Nostalgic Co Cordel

Co Cordèl (Bolsward, 1957), the pseudonym of Epko Terpstra, began his artistic career in the 1980s with traditional, nostalgic still-life paintings. As his style evolved, he expanded his focus...

Flirtatious Jean Paul Domergue

The French painter Jean-Gabriel Domergue (Bordeaux 1889-1962 Paris) was a student of Edgar Degas and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and became famous for his refined Art Deco posters, with elegant wome...

Franz Gailliard (Brussels, 1861 – Sint-Gillis, 1932) was a Belgian painter, watercolorist, pastelist, graphic artist, etcher, and lithographer. He received his education at the Brussels Academy, wh...

Fairy Tales by Lizzy Ansingh

Maria Elisabeth Georgina (Lizzy) Ansingh (Utrecht 1875 —1959 Amsterdam) was a Dutch painter and daughter of a pharmacist. She was a member of the painting group known as the Amsterdam Joffers. She ...

Colorfull Frieda Hunziker

Frieda Hunziker (Amsterdam1908-1966) was a Dutch painter who also worked as an art teacher at various schools in the Netherlands. She was part of the expressionist movement in the Netherlands duri...

Painter of light: Jan van der Kooi

Jan van der Kooi (Groningen, 1957) is a Dutch figurative draftsman and painter, widely regarded as one of the foremost living artists in the Netherlands. Van der Kooi grew up in the village of Bed...

Magic Deunhouwer

Piet Deunhouwer (Utrecht 1928) was an illustrator/advertising artist at the Academy of Visual Arts, first in Rotterdam and then in The Hague. Initially he wanted to become a cartoonist. During his...