Florus "Flor" Silvester (30 August 1923 in

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– 2 December 2008 in

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), sometimes misspelled as Silvestre, was a Dutch

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er,

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painter Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...

, and

sculptor Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...

. Silverster's designs won him the Eurostar for

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and the Golden Nut. He designed and illustrated many Dutch books and designed some classic posters. Flor Silvester studied at the

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, then known as the Volksindustrieschool or the Rotterdamse Academie. Among his teachers were Aart Glansdorp, David Bautz, and Kees van Roemburg. Flor Silvester lived in Rotterdam,

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, and

Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht () is a town and municipality in the western Netherlands. It is located on the island of IJsselmonde, and borders with Zwijndrecht, Ridderkerk, and the Noord River (with Alblasserdam and Papendrecht on the other side). T ...

. In H.I. Ambacht his studio was in his home on the Reeweg. Flor played the trombone in several bands. In 1995 he participated in the 25th Jazz Festival of Breda. Flor Silvester was married to Elizabeth van Dijk. They had three children.

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