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Abstract Theosophy by Hilma Af Klint

Hilma af Klint (Karlberg 1862-1944 Djursholm) was a Swedish painter and the first painter to work abstractly. Just as Vermeer was forgotten for 200 years before becoming the star of today, you can ...

Illuminist Frans Smeers

Frans Smeers (Brussels 1873 – 1960 Brussels) was first a decorator and then went to the Academy of Fine Arts in Bruges. He was co-founder of the Le Sillon group in 1893 together with J. Lambeaux an...

Detailed bolster Nic Jonk

Nic Jonk (Schermerhorn 1928-1994 Alkmaar) and spent his childhood in Langedijk where his mother had a grocery store after the father of the house died. To the great shame of the family, he left for...

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...

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...

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...

Barones Charlotte van Pallandt

Charlotte Dorothée Baroness van Pallandt (Arnhem 1898 – 1997 Noordwijk) was a Dutch painter and one of the most important Dutch sculptors. Charlotte van Pallandt grew up in Schaarsbergen, where she...