Adrianus Johannes "Arie" Zwart (30 August 1903, in

Rijswijk Rijswijk (), formerly known as Ryswick ( ) in English, is a town and municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. Its population was 59.642 in 2024, and it has an area of , of which is water. The municipality also i ...

– 27 August 1981, in

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) was a Dutch painter and in his early work one of the last painters of the

Hague School The Hague School () is a group of artists who lived and worked in The Hague between 1860 and 1890. Their work was heavily influenced by the realist painters of the French Barbizon school. The painters of the Hague school generally made use of re ...

Life

Zwart studied at the

Royal Academy of Art, The Hague The Royal Academy of Art (, KABK) is an art and design academy in The Hague, offering programs at both the Education in the Netherlands, HBO bachelor's and master's levels, as well as PhD programs. Succeeding the ''Haagsche Teeken-Academie'' (pa ...

in 1918 and 1919. Until 1926 he worked also as a graphic designer. Zwart travelled in the 1920s with a car and later with a boat though the Netherlands to paint the traditional life and landscape of the country. After 1949 he traveled to foreign countries and left the traditional Dutch painting.

External links

* http://www.ajzwart.nl * https://web.archive.org/web/20140112182039/http://www.kunstgalerie-arnold.nl/artist.asp?GroupID=265 1903 births 1981 deaths 20th-century Dutch painters Dutch landscape painters Dutch male painters Hague School People from Rijswijk Painters from South Holland Royal Academy of Art, The Hague alumni 19th-century Dutch male artists 20th-century Dutch male artists {{Netherlands-painter-stub