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Fernand Léger

Joseph Fernand Henri (Fernand) Léger (Argentan 1881 – Gif-sur-Yvette 1955) was the son of a cattle farmer who died when Fernand was 4 years old. At the age of sixteen, Léger apprenticed with an arc...

Bart van der Leck

Bart van der Leck (Utrecht 1876 – 1958 Blaricum) was the son of a house painter and started as a glazier. In 1898 he started at the art academy in Amsterdam to develop painting. And with success. A...

Adriaan Lubbers

Adriaan Lubbers (Amsterdam 1892-1954 New York) was a self-taught artist with an independent spirit. He left for America at a young age, where he had all kinds of jobs. He also continued to draw. Wh...

Expressionist Jan Altink

In 1900, Jan Altink was a student at the Minerva Academy and won many prizes and medals. In 1911 he obtained his diploma as an art teacher and earned his income by giving evening classes and as a d...

Jan Toorop

Jan (Johannes Theodorus) Toorop (Poerworedjo 1858 – The Hague 1928) was one of the most important Dutch visual artists from the period 1880-1910. Wherever he went he had a great influence and was m...

Jozef Israëls

Jozef Israëls (Groningen 1824 – 1911 The Hague) was one of the leading Dutch painters of the Hague School. Jozef was born into a Jewish family with a lot of attention for the Jewish community, reli...

Klaas Gubbels

The main characters in the oeuvre of Klaas Gubbels (Rotterdam, 1934) are a coffee pot, usually called a kettle by himself, a table, a cup and sometimes, very occasionally, a female figure, a cat or...

Anton Mauve

Anton Mauve was a watercolourist, painter and draftsman and was born on September 18, 1838 in Zaandam and died in May 1888 in Arnhem. Mauve was the son of a Mennonite minister. He wanted to become ...