Nico Bakker

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Nico Bakker
Born
Albertus Nicolaas Johannes Bakker

(1936-01-03)3 January 1936
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Died21 November 1969(1969-11-21) (aged 33)
Meppel, Netherlands
NationalityDutch
EducationRijksakademie van beeldende kunsten
StyleRealism, abstract
AwardsPrix de Rome
1961 painting
Websitewww.anjbakker.nl

Albertus Nicolaas Johannes Bakker (3 January 1936 – 21 November 1969) was a Dutch painter. Bakker was born in Amsterdam and studied there at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten. He was a pupil of Otto B. de Kat and . He became a teacher at the same institution in 1967 and taught .[1][2]

Bakker worked in Amsterdam and Nieuwkoop. In 1961, he won the Prix de Rome.[1][3] He worked in Switzerland for a year where he met and made gouaches. He also made gouache paintings of IJmuiden, Amsterdam and later Nieuwkoop. He made a series of gouaches for a topographical atlas of Amsterdam and of the Delta Works for the Directorate-General for Public Works and Water Management.[3]

Bakker died in 1969 in the hospital of Meppel,[3] as a result of a car crash. He had a wife and four children.[2]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "Nico Bakker (1936-1969)" (in Dutch). Netherlands Institute for Art History. 30 March 2017. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b "Biografie". www.anjbakker.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 14 April 2020.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Albertus Nicolaas Johannes Bakker". www.artindex.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 14 April 2020.

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