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Kees van Dongen in het Singer - Lyklema Fine Art

Kees van Dongen in Singer

Kees van Dongen is one of the great Dutch painters born in 1877 in Delfshaven in a relatively small family with four children. His father owned two malthouses. Unlike many artists, Kees is given co...

George Hendrik Breitner

Breitner (Rotterdam 1857-1923) was the painter of Amsterdam City Life. Painter of dynamics and melancholy. Many Amsterdammers will consider him to be the painter par excellence who managed to captu...

Jan Voerman jr.

Jan Voerman (Hattem 1890 - 1976 Blaricum) was the son of Jan Voerman Sr. from whom he learned the use of watercolor and oil paint. As a child he was fascinated by the world of plants and insects. A...

Willem de Kooning

De Kooning was born in Rotterdam in 1904 into a broken family. From 1916 to 1920 he worked for an art dealer and took classes at the art academy in the evenings. He thought painting was something f...

Piet van der Hem

Piet van der Hem (Wirdum 1885 - The Hague 1962) 'belonged' to the group of 'moderns' at the beginning of the 20th century, including Leo Gestel and Jan Sluijters. After the Rijks-HBS in Leeuwarden,...

Charles Dankmeijer

Charles Dankmeijer was born on the eighth of April, 1861, in Amsterdam. Even at a young age, he had an interest in painting. His first drawing lessons took place at the artistic society 'Felix Meri...

Colorful Leo Gestel

Leendert Gestel (1841-1941) was an etcher, illustrator, wall painter, painter, watercolourist, draftsman, lithographer, designer, pastellist and had an impressionist, luminist (from 1910), fauvist ...

Rysselberghe & Sluijters

This morning we were in Singer Laren for two beautiful exhibitions. One around Theo van Rysselberghe and one around Jan Sluijters and the modernists. The first is about the painter of the sun and a...