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Leendert van der Vlist

Leendert van der Vlist (Numansdorp 1894-1962 Voorburg) was a Dutch painter who was taught at an early age by Andries van den Berg, Willem van der Nat and Willem de Zwart and later at the Royal Acad...

Art distributor Paul Citroen

Roelof Paul Citroen (Berlin 1896 – 1983 Wassenaar) was a Dutch artist, teacher, art collector, stamp designer (1949), and co-founder of the Nieuwe Kunstschool in Amsterdam. His traditional and Jewi...

Futuristic Willem Lenssinck

Willem Lenssinck (Woerden 1947) is a ceramicist, sculptor and designer and the son of a Dutch father and a German mother. He grew up in Harmelen and Utrecht. In Utrecht he attended the Academy of V...

Shameful Felicien Rops

Félicien Rops (Namur 1833-1898 Essonne) was a Belgian engraver, draftsman and painter. Despite his Catholic background, he led an unconventional life, commuting between his hometown, the castle of...

Symbolistic George Minne

George Minne (1866, Ghent - 1941, Sint-Martens-Latem) is considered one of the leading Symbolist sculptors of Europe. His deeply personal works bridge Rodin's fin-de-siècle symbolism and influenced...

'Rider' Arthur Spronken

Arthur Jan Elisa Spronken (Beek 1930 -2018 Sitard) is one of the Netherlands' most famous sculptors. In his youth, Spronken was influenced by the horse hobby of his father (cigar manufacturer and b...

Wine from Van Dongen

Art, philosophy, style, wonder, enjoyment and wine are all related. See, for example, the work below by Kees van Dongen that he made for his Fauvist works. He captures the sky and the vines with ...

Philosopher Co Westerik

Co Westerik (The Hague 1924-2018 Rotterdam) is perhaps the most important realist in post-war Dutch painting, although he was really a philosophical dreamer. After Co Westerik studied at the Royal ...